PLEASE NOTE:
The list below represents German scientists I know, plus names
added according to hints from some colleagues. Consequently, this
information
is very incomplete and rather subjective. Furthermore, mainly
scientists working on specific
subjects were included. I intended to mainly cover people who
got their positions within
the past 20 years and mainly those who achieved a German habilitation or
equivalent.
The purpose of this list is to present some facts concerning the
current discussion of whether there is a `brain drain' of young
scientists out of Germany. It might thus be understood as a comment on
the point of view defended by many German officials that there is no
brain drain at all; see the links included below.
Of course, this list is not intended to intimidate anybody! If your
name appears on it, and you want to be removed/reduced to your
initials, please send me a mail.
Amendments or corrections to this very preliminary
list are also very welcome.
Some German scientists who got
long-term or
permanent academic positions
abroad: (particularly nonlinear
dynamics and
statistical physics, some in general theoretical physics, mathematics
or philosophy, a few in other disciplines)
Gernot Akemann, Professor in Mathematics, London, UK Gerold Baier, Cuernavaca,
Mexico
Oscar F. Bandtlow, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, London, UK Christian Beck, Professor
in Applied Mathematics, London, UK Markus Buehler, Los Angeles, USA Reinhold Bluemel, Professor in
Physics, Connecticut,
USA
Joachim Brand, Professor, Auckland, New Zealand Evelyn Buckwar, Lecturer in Mathematics, Edinburgh, UK
Ralf Bundschuh, Associate Professor in Physics, Columbus/Ohio, USA
Uwe Burghaus, Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Fargo, USA Paul Busch, Professor of
Mathematics,
York, UK
Dirk Brockmann, Associate Professor in Engineering Sciences and Applied
Mathematics, Evanston, USA Karin Dahmen, Professor, Illinois, USA Joern Davidsen, Assistant Professor,
Calgary, Canada Gustav Delius, Mathematics, York, UK
Rainer Dietmann, Lecturer in Mathematics, London, UK Thomas Dittrich,
Professor, Bogota, Colombia Holger Dullin, Associate Professor, Sydney, Australia Jens Eggers, Professor in Applied
Mathematics, Bristol, UK Christian Elsholtz, Senior Lecturer in Pure
Mathematics, London, UK
Hartmut Erzgraeber, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Exeter, UK
Thomas Fischbacher, Lecturer in Engineering Physics, Southampton, UK Ingo Fischer, Professor, Edinburgh, UK
Christian von Faerber, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics,
Coventry, UK Hans Fangohr, Senior Lecturer in Computing, Southampton, UK
Chrstian Franzke, staff scientist, BAS, Cambridge, UK
Stefanie Gerke, Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, London, UK
Sven Gnutzmann, Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Nottingham, UK Uwe Grimm, Lecturer in Applied
Mathematics, Milton Keynes, UK
Heiko Grossmann, Lecturer in Statistics, London, UK
Jochen Guck, Lecturer, Cambridge, UK
Carsten Gundlach, Professor of Mathematical Physics, Southampton, UK
Dirk Hennig, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Portsmouth, UK Ortwin Hess, Professor in
Physics,
Surrey, UK
Dirk Helbing, Professor, Zuerich, Switzerland
Michael Herrmann, Lecturer, Edinburgh, UK
Thomas Ihle, Assistant Professor in Physics, Fargo, USA Christian Jung, Morelos, Mexico Peter Jung, Professor, Ohio, USA Wolfram Just, Reader in Applied
Mathematics, London, UK Michael Kastner, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ulrich Keyser, Lecturer, Cambridge, UK Rainer Klages, Lecturer in
Applied Mathematics, London, UK
Benjamin Klopsch, Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, London, UK
Bernhard Koeck, Reader in Pure Mathematics, Southampton, UK Andreas Krambeer, Switzerland Martin Kroeger, Zuerich, Switzerland Tobias Kuna, Lecturer, Reading, UK
Frank Kwasniok, Lecturer, Exeter, UK Ulf Leonhardt, Professor in
Theoretical Physics, St Andrews, UK Detlef Lohse, Professor in
Theoretical Physics, Enschede, The
Netherlands Wolfgang Lohsert, Professor in
Physics, College Park, USA Stefan Luding, Professor, Delft
University of Technology, The
Netherlands Jutta Luettmer-Strathman,
Assistant Professor in Physics, Akron, USA
Karim Malik, Lecturer, London, UK Jens Markloff, Professor in
Mathematical Physics, Bristol, UK
Sylvio May, Assistant Professor in Physics, Fargo, USA Bernhard Mehlig, Goeteborg,
Sweden Thomas Michelitsch, Senior
Researcher, Paris, France Thomas Mueller, Professor in
Pure Mathematics,
London, UK Jens Uwe Noeckel, Assistant Professor
in Physics, Eugene, Oregon, USA Brita Nucinkis, Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Southampton, UK Thomas Prellberg, Reader in
Applied Mathematics, London, UK
Thorsten Ritz, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy,
Irvine, California, USA Rudolf Roemer, Senior Lecturer
in
Computer
Science, Warwick, UK Bjoern Sandstede, Professor in
Mathematics, Surrey, UK Ruediger Schack, Professor in
Mathematics, London, UK Arnd Scheel, Professor, Minneapolis,
USA Henning Schomerus, Reader in Physics,
Lancaster, UK Frank Schweitzer, Professor, Zuerich,
Switzerland Martin Sieber, Lecturer in Applied
Mathematics, Bristol, UK
Peter Sollich, Professor of Statistical Mechanics, London, UK
Ole Steuernagel, Senior Lecturer, Hertfordshire, UK
Henning Struchtrup, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Victoria, Canada
Florian Theil, Associate Professor, Warwick, UK
Uwe Thiele, Loughborough, UK
Carsten Timm, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Kansas, USA
Christopher Voll, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Southampton, UK Holger Waalkens, Associate Professor, Groningen, The Netherlands Andreas Wacker, Professor, Lund,
Sweden Renate Wackerbauer, Assistant
Professor in Physics, Fairbanks, USA
Thomas Wagenknecht, Lecturer, Liverpool, UK
Alexander Wagner, Assistant Professor in Physics, Fargo, USA Richard Wagner (Professor in International Banking, Southampton, UK Stefan Weigert, Reader in
Mathematical Physics, York, UK Friedel Weinert, Senior Lecturer in
Philosophy, Bradford, UK Claudia Wulff, Lecturer in
Mathematics, Surrey, UK
total number: 87
NB: In our School of Mathematical Sciences
at Queen Mary University of London, currently 8 out of approx. 55
members of staff are Germans. Please check yourself other universities
in UK for similar numbers.
Some German scientists who left the
fundamental sciences (jobs in companies, polytechnicals, etc.):
Georg Foltin
Gregor Hackenbroich, Essen
Klaus Morawetz, Muenster
Arnulf Latz, Kaiserslautern
Holger Schanz, Goettingen
Gudrun Schlieker, Berlin
Thomas Schreiber, Stuttgart
Andreas Schuering, Leipzig
Guenter Troll
total number: 9
Some German scientists who got
permanent academic
positions in Germany:
Markus Baer, Berlin
Stefan Bornholdt, Professor, Bremen Tobias
Brandes,
Professor, Berlin
Andreas Buchleitner, Professor, Freiburg Peter Dieterich, Dresden
Andreas Deutsch, Dresden
Barbara Drossel, Professor, Darmstadt
Heike Emmerich, Professor, Aachen
Rudolf Friedrich, Professor, Muenster
Claudius Gross, Professor, Saarbruecken
Harald Engel, Professor, Berlin
Stefan Linz, Professor,
Muenster Ulrike Feudel, Professor, Oldenburg
Jan Freund, Oldenburg
Frank Grossmann, Dresden Thomas Guhr, Professor, Duisburg
Holger Kantz, Professor, Dresden
Stefan Keppeler, akad. Rat, Tuebingen
Roland Ketzmerick, Professor, Dresden
Klaus Kroy, Professor, Leipzig
Christoph Kruelle, Professor, Karlsruhe Ralf Metzler, Professor, Munich
Roland Netz, Professor, Munich
Manfred Opper, Professor, TU Berlin
Martin Plenio, Professor, Ulm
Thorsten Poeschel, Professor, Bayreuth
Klaus Richter, Professor, Regensburg
Heiko Rieger, Professor, Saarbruecken
Erich Runge, Professor, Freital
Peter Schmelcher, Professor, Heidelberg
Holger Stark, Professor, Berlin
total number: 30
SOME FURTHER LINKS
that you might find interesting
(most of them in German, sorry) - please
judge yourself:
