Dr. Dietrich Belitz received his Ph. D in Technical University Munich in 1982. In 1987, he joined University of Oregon. In 1997, he was promoted to full professor. From 1998-2004, he was head of Department of Physics. Now he is Associate Dean for Natural Science.

Dietrich Belitz conducts theoretical research at the boundary between statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. His principal interest in recent years has been focused on quantum many-body problems, including superconductivity, magnetism, transport processes, and quantum phase transitions, in particular metal-insulator transitions in disordered strongly correlated electron systems and quantum ferromagnetic transitions. His two comprehensive review papers published in Review of Modern Physics reported these results.