Achim Richter - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1940 Born in Dresden, Germany
  
• 1959 Enrolled as physics student at the University of Heidelberg
  
• 1965 Final exam ("Diplom") in Physics
  
• 1967 Doctorate degree ("Dr. rer. nat.") in Physics
  
• 1967 - 1968 Research Associate in the Dept. of Physics at FSU, Tallahassee, U.S.A.
  
• 1968 - 1970 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physics Division of the ANL, Argonne, U.S.A.
  
• 1971 Research Associate at the MPI of Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Habilitation in Physics at the University of Heidelberg and University Lecturer ("Privatdozent")
  
• 1971 - 1974 Associate Professor at the Ruhr University of Bochum
  
• Since 1974 Professor of Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt) and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics
  
• 1978 - 1979 Sabbatical leave at the Dept. de Physique Nucléare à Haute Energy, Saclay, France
  
• 1983 - 1984 Sabbatical leave at the Dept. de Physique Nucléare à Haute Energy, Saclay, France
  
• 1988 - 1989 Sabbatical leave at CERN, Geneva, as Scientific Associate
  
• 1998 - 1999 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin ("Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin")
  
• 2003 - 2004 Sabbatical leave at the IPN and the LPTMS at Orsay, France, at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, at the Physics Division of the ANL, Argonne, and the NSCL at the MSU, East Lansing, U.S.A.
  
• 2007 - 2008 Sabbatical leave at the NSCL, MSU, East Lansing, U.S.A., at the INT, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., at the LPTMS, Orsay, France, and at the MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden
  
• 2008 Oct 1, Professor Emeritus at the TU Darmstadt and since Nov 01, Director of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy, until Oct 31, 2012
  
• 2012 Nov 01, return to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at TU Darmstadt
  

Achim Richter has been and still is member of numerous evaluation and science advisory panels in Germany, Europe, the U.S.A. and Canada:

• regular referee for all impact factor journals in his main research fields
  
• invited speaker at major international conferences, workshops, schools and universities for the past 40 years
  
• member of Editorial Boards of several international research journals
  

Since 2006 he is Senior Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics, the physics journal with the highest impact factor (43 in 2011).