Manfred Fiebig

Biography

Manfred Fiebig has been a Professor of Multifunctional Ferroic Materials in the Department of Materials since 2010. He was born in Iserlohn, Germany, in 1965. Professor Fiebig completed a degree (Diploma) in physics at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1992, obtaining a PhD from the same university in 1996. From 1997 to 1999, he was a JST Research Fellow (Japan Science and Technology) at the University of Tokyo, Japan. In 1999 he returned to the University of Dortmund, where he headed a junior research group until 2001. He was also habilitated at this university in 2001. From 2002 to 2006, Professor Fiebig worked as a DFG (German Research Foundation) Heisenberg Fellow at the Max Born Institute for Non-Linear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin. In 2006 he was appointed Professor of Experimental Solid-State Physics at the University of Bonn, Germany; a position he held until 2011. In 2010, he spent a research sabbatical at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Research Interest

Experimental condensed matter physics, non-linear laser optics.