Prof. Dr. Martin Weinelt
born 9th of June 1963 in München, Germany
married, two children


Scientific Curriculum
1991 Diploma, experimental physics, Technical University München (Germany)
1991 - 1994 Ph.D. thesis at the Department of Physics E20, Technical University München (Germany),
with Prof. Hans-Peter Steinrück and Prof. Dietrich Menzel
1994 - 1996 Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Uppsala (Sweden),
with Prof. Nils Martensson
1994 - 1996 Guest scientist at the IBM beamline at Advanced Light Source,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA),
with Prof. Anders Nilsson and Prof. Joachim Stöhr
1996 - 2002 Research associate at the Institute of Solid State Physics, University Erlangen (Germany), with Prof. Thomas Fauster
2002 Venia docendi
2002 - 2003 Assistant professor at the University of Erlangen (Germany)
since Oct 2004 Head of department A1 of the Max-Born-Institute and
associate professor at the Free University of Berlin (Germany)


Honors and Awards
1994 - 1996 Scholarship of the Swedish National Research Foundation
2004 Interims professor at the Institute of Applied Physics, University Erlangen, Germany
since 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of the IOP Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter


Current cooperative Research Activities
SFB 658 "Basic processes in molecular switches at surfaces"
subproject B2 Weinelt/Gahl
SPP 1133 DFG priority program "Ultrafast magnetization processes",
subproject together with Prof. Markus Donath, University Münster, Germany
Leibniz Pakt für Forschung
und Innovation
approved proposal for "New femtosecond light sources"
a joint initiative of Max-Born-Institute, the Berlin Synchrotron Facility BESSY,
and teams at Free University of Berlin and University of Göttingen