in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Institut für Festkörperforschung (IFF)

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Blügel, Stefan N.

Date and place of birth: 29. January 1957, D--66538 Neunkirchen/Saar

Nationality: German

Education:

BSc. 1977, mechanical engineer (FH), Fachhochschule des Saarlandes, Germany
Diploma 1984, Physics, Aachen Institute of Technology (RWTH Aachen), Germany
Ph.D 1988, Physics, Aachen Institute of Technology (RWTH Aachen), Germany
habilitation and {\sl Venia Lengendi} 1996, Aachen Institute of Technology, Germany

post doctoral fellow, Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) The University of Tokyo (ToDai), Japan
1988-1990 research scientist, IFF-Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
1990 habilitation and lecturer, Aachen Institute of Technology
1996 visiting scientist, Institut of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1992 visiting scientist, Dept. of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA
1993+1996 visiting scientist, Inst. f. Technische Electrochemie TU Wien, Wien, Austria
1994 visiting scientist, Joint Research Center for Atom Technology (JRCAT), Tsukuba, Japan 1997+1998

main field : Electronic structure theory
other fields: Computational physics of real materials
current research interests: Physics of low dimensional materials. Electronic, chemical, and magnetic properties of surfaces and nanostructures, microscopic understanding of growth, theory of STM, theory for magnetoelectronics

1984-1985 DAAD Fellowship to perform research at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
1988-1990 Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (AvH) to perform research at the Institut for Solid State Physics of the University of Tokio.
1988 Friedrich--Wilhelm--Prize of the Aachen Institute of Technology
1993 Heinz--Maier--Leibniz--Prize of ``Physics and Chemistry of ultrathin films''
1994 Academy Award of the Academy of Sciences of the state of North Rhine Westfalia (NRW)

Number of papers in refereed journals: 60
Number of communications to scientific meetings: 25 invited talks at international conferences and workshops