PLEASE NOTE:
The list below represents German scientists I know,
plus names
added according to hints from some colleagues (thanks!). Consequently,
this
information
is very incomplete and rather subjective. It may also be partially
outdated, as I started this list about 10 years ago and cannot follow
who is moving where (updates are welcome!). 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)
Markus Abel, Professor, Nancy, France
Gerold Baier, Cuernavaca,
Mexico
Adrian Baule, Lecturer, London, UK
Oscar F. Bandtlow, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, London, UK Christian Beck, Professor
in Applied Mathematics, London, UK
Stefanie Biedermann, Lecturer, Southampton, UK
Dankmar Boehning, Professor, Southampton, UK Markus Buehler, Los Angeles, USA Reinhold Bluemel, Professor in
Physics, Connecticut,
USA Joachim Brand, Professor, Auckland, New Zealand
Evelyn Buckwar, Professor, Linz Ralf Bundschuh, Associate Professor
in Physics, Columbus/Ohio, USA
Uwe Burghaus, Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Fargo, USA Paul Busch, Professor of
Mathematics,
York, UK Karin Dahmen, Professor, Illinois, USA Joern Davidsen, Associate 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 Matthias Ehrgott, Professor, Lancaster, UK Christian Elsholtz, Senior Lecturer
in Pure
Mathematics, London, UK
Hans Fangohr, Professor, Southampton, UK
Thomas Fischbacher, Lecturer in Engineering Physics, Southampton, UK
Ingo Fischer, Professor, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Christian von Faerber, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics,
Coventry, UK
Hans Fangohr, Senior Lecturer in Computing, Southampton, UK
Joerg Fliege, Professor, 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, Professor in Applied
Mathematics, Milton Keynes, UK
Stefan Groote, Professor, Tartu, Estonia
Heiko Grossmann, Lecturer in Statistics, London, UK Andreas Grothey, Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh, UK
Jochen Guck, Lecturer, Cambridge, UK
Carsten Gundlach, Professor of Mathematical Physics, Southampton, UK
Ortwin Hess, Professor in Physics, London, UK
Dirk Helbing, Professor, Zuerich, Switzerland Dirk Hennig, Lecturer, Portsmouth, UK Michael Herrmann, Lecturer,
Edinburgh, UK Dirk Hundertmark, Associate Professor, Urbana-Champain, USA
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, Reader 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
Bernd Krauskopf, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Auckland, New Zealand Martin Kroeger, Professor,
Zuerich, Switzerland
Daniela Kuehn, Professor, Birmingham, UK
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 Sven Leyffer, Argonne, USA Stefan Luding, Professor, Delft
University of Technology, The
Netherlands Jutta
Luettmer-Strathman, Professor in Physics, Akron, USA
Karim Malik, Senior Lecturer, London, UK Jens Markloff, Professor in
Mathematical Physics, Bristol, UK
Sylvio May, Assistant Professor in Physics, Fargo, USA Bernhard Mehlig, Professor,
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
Frank Oertl, Senior Lecturer, Southampton, UK Thomas Prellberg, Reader in
Applied Mathematics, London, UK
Gunnar Pruessner, Lecturer, 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, Reader in Applied
Mathematics, Bristol, UK
Peter Sollich, Professor of Statistical Mechanics, London, UK
Jens Starke, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Lyngby, Denmark
Ole Steuernagel, Senior Lecturer, Hertfordshire, UK
Henning Struchtrup, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering,
Victoria, Canada
Bernd Sturmfeld, Professor, Berkeley, USA
Florian Theil, Associate Professor, Warwick, 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
Andreas Waechter, Professor, Northwestern Uni, 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 Dietmar Weinmann, Directeur de
Recherche, Strasbourg, France Claudia Wulff, Reader in
Mathematics, Surrey, UK
total number: 102
NB: In our School of Mathematical Sciences
at Queen Mary University of London, currently 8 out of approx. 40
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, schools,
polytechnicals, etc.):
Hartmut Erzgraeber
Georg Foltin
Gregor Hackenbroich, Essen
Marcel Kanstedt, Dublin
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:
Gernot Akemann, Professor, Bielefeld
Markus Baer, Professor, Berlin
Stefan Bornholdt, Professor, Bremen Tobias
Brandes,
Professor, Berlin
Dirk Brockmann, Professor, Robert Koch Institut and Humboldt U. Berlin
Andreas Buchleitner, Professor, Freiburg
Andreas Deutsch, Dresden
Barbara Drossel, Professor, Darmstadt
Heike Emmerich, Professor, Bayreuth
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
Florian Jarre, Duesseldorf
Holger Kantz, Professor, Dresden
Stefan Keppeler, akad. Rat, Tuebingen
Roland Ketzmerick, Professor, Dresden
Klaus Kroy, Professor, Leipzig
Christoph Kruelle, Professor, Karlsruhe
Eric Lutz, Professor, Erlangen-Nuernberg 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
Gerhard Roehrle, Bochum
Erich Runge, Professor, Freital
Peter Schmelcher, Professor, Hamburg
Holger Stark, Professor, Berlin
Franz-Theo Suttmeier, Siegen
Uwe Thiele, Professor, Muenster, UK
total number: 36
SOME FURTHER LINKS
that you might find interesting
(most of them in German, sorry) - please
judge yourself:
On Tuesday 24 February, the German television show
Frontal 21, a current affairs programme not unlike the BBC’s
Panorama, broadcast a report about the difficult working
environment experienced by many young scientists in Germany, which has
led to many of them pursuing academic careers abroad. The School of
Mathematical Sciences at QMUL, where 9 of its 49 academic staff
members have German passports, was presented as an example. The report
features interviews with Rainer Klages and Adrian Baule, and shows
Rainer Klages lecturing in the Great Hall, as well as German staff
members and PhD students celebrating brain drain by having a beer in
the College's Senior Common Room Bar.
