Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Rethfeld

Address: Department of Physics
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 46
67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Phone: +49 631 205 2385
Fax:+49 631 205 3903
Email:rethfeld[at]physik.uni-kl.de
Date of Birth:June, 19th 1970 in Bremen, Germany
Family:two children, born in June 2001 and May 2004
Photo of Prof. Dr. Bärbel Rethfeld
1989 Graduated from Waldschule Schwanewede, Lower Saxony, Germany
1989 - 1995 Studies of Physics at the University of Braunschweig, Germany
1995 Diploma in Physics
Diploma Thesis at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Braunschweig, Germany, in the group of Prof. Dr. G. Simon:
Modellierung der katodennahen Plasmarandschicht einer Lichtbogenentladung
(Modeling of the cathode fall region in an arc discharge plasma)
Support of the Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung for a research stay in Russia
Visiting Young Scientist at the L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. I. Anisimov
1999 Ph.D. in Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Braunschweig, Germany, in the group of Prof. Dr. G. Simon
Thesis on: Mikroskopische Prozesse bei der Wechselwirkung von Festkörpern mit Laserpulsen im Subpikosekundenbereich
(Microscopic processes in solids during ultrashort laser interaction)
1999 - 2001 PostDoc at the Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics, University of Essen, Germany,
in the group of Prof. Dr. D. von der Linde
2001 - 2005 Lise Meitner-fellow of North Rhine-Westphalia
2006 - 2007 Assistant at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) and the University of Darmstadt in the group of Prof. Dr. D. H. H. Hoffmann
2007 - 2013 Emmy Noether-fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft;
Head of a group on
Ultrafast Dynamics of Laser-Excited Solids
at the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
2009 Guest professor at Laboratoire de Physico-Chimir de l'Etat Solide, University of Paris Sud, Orsay, France
2012 Offer of a professorship in Theoretical Physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2013 - 2018 Heisenberg-Professorship in Applied Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
since 2018 Professor of Applied Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, now University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany