Günter Reiter

Biography

Günter Reiter is a professor for experimental polymer physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Freiburg. He is a member of the board of directors of the Freiburg-based Material Research Center and speaker of the International Research Training Group on SoftMatter Science, a collaboration between Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Basel and Freiburg. He is chairman of the Macromolecular Physics Section of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society. (EPJ ST) and Book Series Editor (with David Andelman) for the Series in Soft Condensed Matter published by World Scientific, Singapore. He studied physics in Graz, Austria, where he received his PhD in 1987. After five years at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz / Germany and two years at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign / USA, he stayed 14 years in Mulhouse / France as a researcher at the CNRS. In 2008 he accepted his current position in Freiburg.

Research Interest

His current research focuses on Low-cost solution processing coupled with high-performance optoelectronic properties make semi-crystalline π-conjugated polymers key materials in the development of organic electronic technology, such as transistors, light emitting diodes and photovoltaic cells.