Wolfgang Ernst

Biography

Wolfgang E. Ernst is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). He finished his PhD in physics at TU Hannover, Germany in 1977, pursued postdoctoral research at Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1978-79, and obtained his habilitation at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany in 1983. From 1990 to 2002 he held the position of a full professor at Penn State University, USA, after which he moved to Graz University of Technology, Austria, where he served as Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Experimental Physics until 2019. Professor Ernst received the 1987 Physics Prize of the German Physical Society, the 1998 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal, and in 2015 the Styrian Research Prize in Austria. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the European Physical Society, and was President of the Austrian Physical Society from 2013 to 2014. His continuing research has focus on the experimental investigation and theoretical interpretation of the electronic and nuclear dynamics in molecules, clusters, and at surfaces, with a broad interest in the atomistic structure of matter, its physical, optical and chemical properties.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, PCCP (Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)