Prof. Rupert Huber

Rupert Huber studied physics in Munich and Berkeley. He received his PhD degree in physics from Technische Universität München, in 2004. In the subsequent two years, he worked as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before he was awarded with an Emmy Noether Grant by the German Science Foundation (DFG), funding his junior research group at University of Konstanz. For the group’s work on ultrafast low-energy dynamics in solids, Rupert Huber received the Rudolf Kaiser Prize 2009. One year later, he was appointed a professor and chair of physics at University of Regensburg. His scientific work has since been backed up by an ERC Consolidator Grant on Ultrafast quantum physics on the subcycle time scale. His most recent scientific interest has been on lightwave-driven electronics leading to high-harmonic generation and quasiparticle collisions in solids, subcycle near-field optics, and atomic-resolution femtosecond scanning-tunnelling microscopy.