Arnold J. Schmidt#

Curriculum Vitae #

• 1944 - 1956 Elementary and High School (A- levels 1956)
• 1956 - 1962 Study of physics at the Universität Wien, (Ph.D. 1962)

• 1962 - 1965 Research Assistant (with Prof. Dr. K.M. Koch); engaged in founding the Ludwig Boltzmann Society and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Festköperphysik, Vienna, Austria
• 1966 - 1971 Research Fellow at the Department of Physics, University of York, UK
• 1971 - 1975 Research Associate at the Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1975 Assistant Professor at the Institut für physikalische Elektronik TH Wien, Austria
• 1978 “Habilitation” in the field of Quantum Electronics
• 1979 Associate Professor and head of the Abteilung für Quantenelektronik und Lasertechnik at the TU Wien
• 1986 Full Professor at the TU Wien, Austria
• 1989 - 1993 Chairman of the Institut für allgemeine Elektrotechnik und Elektronik of the TU Wien, Austria
• 2000 - 2001 Chairman of the Photonics Institute of the TU Wien, Austria

• Member of the Academia Europea (since 1998)
• Member of the Austrian Academy of Science (since 1999)
• Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since 1996)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (since 1998)

• President of the Christian-Doppler-Gesellschaft (1988 - 1994)
• President of the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (1994 - 2003)
• Member of the Governing Council of the European Science Foundation (2000 - 2003)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the EUROHORCS (2001 - 2003)
• Member of ESTA (1994 - 1999)
• Member of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) (2001 - 2004)
• Chairman of the board of the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (2005 - 2009)
• Member of the board of the Österreichischen Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (2005 - 2009)
• Vice chair of the Scientific Board of ISTA (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) (2007- )