Dieter Bimberg

Dieter H. Bimberg is the Founding Director of the Center of Nanophotonics at TU Berlin and serves now as CEO of the new Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics at CIOMP. He was chairman of the Department of Solid State Physics at TUB from 1991 to 2012. His research interests include the growth and physics of nanostructures and nanophotonic devices, ultrahigh speed and energy efficient photonic devices for information systems, like quantum dot based mode-locked lasers and DFB lasers and ultimate nanoflash memories based on quantum dots. He has authored more than 1500 papers, 60 patents, and 7 books resulting in more than 56,000 citations and a Hirsch factor of 106. His honors include the Russian State Prize in Science and Technology 2001, his election to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2004, to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2011, to the American Academy of Engineering in 2014, to the American Academy of Inventors 2016. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and IEEE since 2004 and 2010, respectively. He received the Max-Born-Award and Medal 2006, awarded jointly by IoP and DPG, the William Streifer Award of the Photonics Society of IEEE in 2010, the UNESCO Nanoscience Award and Medal 2012, Heinrich-Welker-Award 2015 and Nick Holonyak jr. Award of OSA in 2018. In 2019 he received the IEEE Nishizaza Award and Medal.