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Knut Urban | |
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_(52337039956)_(cropped).jpg) Knut Urban (2022) | |
| Born | (1941-06-25)25 June 1941 (age 84) Stuttgart, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Stuttgart (PhD) |
| Known for | Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics(2011) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award(2013) Kavli Prize(2020) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electron microscopy |
| Institutions | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Knut W. Urban (born 25 June 1941) is a German physicist. He has been the Director of the Institute of Microstructure Research atForschungszentrum Jülich from 1987 to 2010.
Knut Urban's research focuses on the field ofelectron microscopy (both regarding the further development of instruments and the control software), the examination of structural defects in oxides and the physical properties of complex metallic alloys. He also works onJosephson effects inhigh-temperature superconductors and the application of these effects inSQUID systems and magnetometers as well as on the application of Hilbert transform spectroscopy in examining the excitation of solids, liquids and gases on the gigahertz and terahertz scale.
Besides his activities at Forschungszentrum Jülich he was also professor forexperimental physics atRWTH Aachen University before retirement.
He is the laureate of theWolf Prize in Physics and the 2020Kavli Prize in Nanonoscience for the development ofaberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy withHarald Rose andMaximilian Haider.
Knut Urban was born inStuttgart, Germany in 1941.
Urban studied physics at theUniversity of Stuttgart and was awarded a PhD in 1972 for his dissertation on the study of the damage caused by the electron beams in a high-voltage electron microscope at low temperatures. He subsequently conducted research at theMax Planck Institute of Metals Research in Stuttgart until 1986. Amongst other tasks, he was involved in the installation of a 1.2-MV high-voltage microscope laboratory as well as in studies on the anisotropy of atomic displacement energy in crystals and on radiation-induced diffusion. In 1986 he was appointed professor of general material properties by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at theUniversity of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1987 Urban was appointed to the chair of experimental physics at RWTH Aachen University and simultaneously became the director of the Institute of Microstructure Research at Forschungszentrum Jülich. From 1996 to 1997 he was a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Materials Processing ofTohoku University inSendai (Japan). Knut Urban was appointed one of two directors of theErnst Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C) when it was founded in 2004 as a common competence platform of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University as well as a national centre for users ofhigh-resolution transmission electron microscopes.
From 2004 to 2006 he was president of theGerman Physical Society (DPG) which is the world's largest organisation of physicists.[1] He is a member of several advisory bodies, boards of trustees and senate committees of scientific institutions.
Knut Urban formally retired as the Director of the Institute of Microstructure Research and theErnst Ruska Centre (ER-C) in Jülich in 2010 and was appointed a JARA senior professor atRWTH Aachen University in 2012. In 2009, he was elected a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
Knut Urban is married and has three daughters.
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