Marius Grundmann
German physicist and university teacher
Marius Grundmann (born 14 November 1964 in Berlin) is a German physicist and university professor. He served as Director of the Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics for two decades.
Education and career
Grundmann attended primary school in Berlin-Schmargendorf from 1970 to 1974. He then attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, where he obtained his Abitur (German university entrance qualification) in 1982. In 1983, he began studying physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He graduated in 1988 with a diploma thesis entitled Pseudomorphic Quantum Wells and Excitonic Effects, receiving the overall grade of sehr gut ("very good"). In 1984, he was awarded a scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). From 1988 to 1991, he pursued doctoral studies at the Technical University of Berlin under the supervision of Dieter Bimberg. He completed his doctorate with a dissertation on Heteroepitaxy of InP on Si, graduating summa cum laude. Following research appointments in the United States, Grundmann held a postdoctoral habilitation fellowship funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1992 to 1994.
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