Arnold J. Schmidt#
Obituary
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Curriculum Vitae #
Education
- 1944 - 1956 Elementary and High School (A- levels 1956)
- 1956 - 1962 Study of physics at the Universität Wien, (Ph.D. 1962)
Employment
- 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
Membership in Learned Societies and Awards (selection)
- 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)
Memberships and Functions in Funding Organizations (selection)
- 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- )