Vita of Dr. Andreas Otto

 

Born

October 1936 in Dresden, Germany

 

Studies of physics

1956 - 1962, University of Munich, Germany

 

Diplomphysiker

14.06.1962

 

Doctor thesis

1962 - 1964 University of Munich, Plasma-oscillations of bound electrons: the characteristic energy loss of 3.6 eV in thin silver foils.

 

Dr. rer. nat.

10.02.1965, University of Munich

 

Scientific  Assistent

1.07.1964 -  01.02.1970 University of  Munich

 

Senior Research Fellow

01.03.1969 - 01.02.1970, University of Western Australia, Perth,  W.A.

 

Habilitation

University of Munich. "Surface plasma oscillations excited by electrons and by light"

 

University-docent

16.06.1973 - 31.08.1974, University of Munich Walter Schottky-price of the German physical society for young scientists, 1974 for work "contributing to the understanding of surface specific excitations of solids by the method of attenuated total reflectivity"

 

Scientific coworker(H3)

01.09.1974 - 30.06.1977, at the Max-Planck-Institute of solid state research, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Chair of physics

01.07.1977-28.2.2002, University of Düsseldorf,Germany

 

research semesters

Summer 1986: Fritz-Haber-Institute of the MPG, Berlin, Germany and Department of

Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, USA

Winter 1994: Department of Materials Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan,

National Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Tsukuba, Japan

Winter 1997: Université Paris Sud, France

 

Teaching as Prof. emeritus

State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid

Surfaces , Xiamen University, China, 2003,2005

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 27.10.2010-30.1.2011

Summerschool of “Nannoantenna-Project” April 2011

Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia 2012