Lehrstuhl für Optoelektronik weicher Materie, Experimentalphysik II
University of Bayreuth

Job History

Since 2013

Vice president for international affairs and diversity management
of the Universität Bayreuth (UBT)

Since 2007

Professor, Chair of Experimental physics II

Since 2007

Leadership board of the BIMF (Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research)

Since 2007

Professor of the Elite Network of Bavaria, Elite Study Program “Macromolecular Science”,  Universität Bayreuth

2004 – 2007

Professor, Chemical Physics, Universität Potsdam

2002 – 2003

Lecturer, Department of Physics, King’s College London

1999 – 2004

University Research Fellow of the Royal Society, London. Fellowship held at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

1996 – 1999

Research Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK. Fellowship held
at the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK.

Education

1998

Diploma in Physics (date of last exam), Universität Karlsruhe

1993 – 1997

PhD, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK

1992 – 1993

Certificate of Advanced Studies (now Master of Advanced Studies) in Mathematics, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

1989 – 1992

Study of Physics, Universität Karlsruhe

Awards and other responsibilities

Since 2011

Member of the Stern-Gerlach-Prize Committee of the DFG (German science foundation)

Since 2011

Liason officer of the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung

2011 – 2013

Member of the Senat of the UBT

2009 – 2013

Member of the Presidential Committee for International affairs of the UBT

2009 – 2013

Women’s officer at faculty level at the UBT, Faculty board member of the UBT

Since 2007

Involvement in conference organization:
Light-Harvesting-Processes; Symposium BB Hybrid Functional Materials for Optical Applications at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco 2007; Elected Vice-Chair for 2016 and Chair for 2018 for the Gordon Research Conference in Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italien

1999 – 2004

Fellow and Member of the Governing Body, Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK

1993 – 1996

"Ribbands Research Studentship" of Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK

1994 – 1995

Stipendium of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

1993 – 1994

Stipend of the des Kurt Hahn Trust, Cambridge

1989 – 1995

Stipend of the -Adenauer-Stiftung

Lehrstuhl für Optoelektronik weicher Materie, Experimentalphysik II
University of Bayreuth

My Research is concerned with optical and electronic processes in organic semiconductors. These materials are of high interest to industry as they combine the mechanical and processing properties of semiconductors with the electronic properties of semiconductors. This allows for the development of novel solar cells, light-emitting diodes and transistors. The industrial development of such technologies requires a comprehensive understanding of their scientific foundations. Thus, my research focusses on understanding how excitations and charges are created in organic semiconductors, how they decay, what their properties are and which opto-electronic processes they allow for. To this end, I employ a broad range of techniques centered on absorption and luminescence spectroscopy as well as device characterization.

Lehrstuhl für Optoelektronik weicher Materie, Experimentalphysik II
University of Bayreuth

Prof. Dr. Anna Köhler
University of Bayreuth

Universitätsstraße 30
95447 Bayreuth

E-mail: anna.koehler@uni-bayreuth.de
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