Short curriculum vitae
After studying physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Stefan Kowarik completed his doctorate in physical chemistry at Oxford in 2006. Post-doctoral stays took him to the universities of Tübingen and Cornell, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship took him to Berkeley in California. In 2009, Humboldt University in Berlin appointed him to a junior professorship in physics. From 2017, he worked at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing. Since 2020, he has been working in physical chemistry at the University of Graz.