Ulrich Rüdiger

Ulrich Rüdiger Overview

Ulrich Rüdiger, born on September 25, 1966, in Helmstedt, is a distinguished German physicist and currently serves as the rector of RWTH Aachen University. He pursued his physics studies at RWTH Aachen from 1988 to 1994. In 1997, under the guidance of Gernot Güntherodt, he earned his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) for his research on the preparation, characterization, and Kerr spectroscopy of MnBi thin films as potential magnetooptic storage media. Following his doctoral studies, from 1997 to 1998, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, conducting research at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose and the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility at Cornell University. He then became a scientific assistant at the II. Physikalischen Institut at RWTH Aachen and later an academic advisor in 2000. In 2002, he completed his habilitation with a thesis titled "Spin-Dependent Transport Phenomena: Materials, Magnetoresistance, and Applications."