Elke Scheer
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Elke Scheer (born 1965){{r|cv}} is a German experimental condensed matter physicist whose research focuses on the transport of electrical charge at the single-molecule scale and related effects, including molecular electronics and mesoscale superconductivity. She is a professor of physics at the University of Konstanz, where she heads the Mesoscopic Systems Group.{{r|uk}}
Education and career
Scheer earned a diploma in physics (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in 1990, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, through research supervised by Hilbert von Löhneysen. Continuing to work with von Löhneysen at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, she completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1995.{{r|cv}}
After postdoctoral research at CEA Paris-Saclay, she returned to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1997. She took her present position as a professor at the University of Konstanz in 2000.{{r|cv}}
Recognition
Scheer received the 1999 Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society,{{r|dpg}} and the 2000 Alfried Krupp Prize for Young Professors.{{r|krupp}} She is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, elected in 2009.{{r|hadw}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.scheer.uni-konstanz.de/ Mesoscopic Systems Group]
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Category:German women physicists