Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nano Photonics and was for 21 years the chair of the department on Solid State Physics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa (twice), U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018.In 2018 he was appointed as executive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a position he is still holding.
He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,the EU Academy of Sciences, aForeignMember of the Russian Academy of Sciences,the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, Fellow of the Electromagnetic Academy, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Association and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award of IEEE, the Oyo Buturiand MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award),to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Alferov University of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited is70,000+ and his Hirsch factor is 116 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, like edge and surface emitting lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers, energy efficient data communication, and physics and technology of nanostructures.
