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Professor Bernhard Keimer

Heisenbergstr. 1
D-70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49 711 689-1650
e-mail: b.keimer[at]fkf.mpg.de



 


 

 

Brief curriculum vitae

 

University education

1991                 Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Advisor: Prof. R. J. Birgeneau
1985Pre-diploma in Physics, Technical University of Munich

 

Current positions

2020 -Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia
1999 -Honorary Professor, University of Stuttgart
1998 -Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid Research
Member, Scientific Council, Max Planck Society

 

Previous positions

1997 - 1998Full Professor of Physics, Princeton University
1996 - 1997Associate Professor of Physics, Princeton University
1992 - 1996Assistant Professor of Physics, Princeton University
1991 - 1992Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Scientific awards

2024ERC Advanced Grant “SpecTera”
2022                   Kamerlingh Onnes Prize
2022                   Mahendra Lal Sircar Lecture, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
2015                   ERC Advanced Grant “Com4Com”
2014,                  
2018 - 2022       		listed as Highly Cited Researcher in categories “Physics” or “Cross-field” by the Institute for Scientific - Information (Clarivate Analytics)
2014                   Foreign Associate, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2012                   Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society
2011                   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Prize, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2010                   Elected Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
2006                   Elected Member, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
2000                   Ehrenfest Lecture, University of Leiden, Netherlands
1995                   David & Lucille Packard Faculty Fellow
1996                   Alfred P. Sloan Faculty Fellow
1990                   I.B.M. Predoctoral Fellow
1983                   Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Scholarship)

 

Publication statistics  
Google Scholar: > 45000 citations, h = 106 (July 2025) 
Web of Science: > 32000 citations, h = 90 (July 2025) 

 

Institutional responsibilities

2020 - 2023 Chair, Scientific Council, Max Planck Society
(≈300 MPI Directors and ≈80 scientific staff representatives)
2019 -                      Chair, Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials
(≈60 graduate students at different locations in Germany)
2001 -                      Chair, International Max Planck Research School on Condensed Matter Science
(≈100 graduate students at the MPI for Solid State Research and the University of Stuttgart)
2012 -                       Co-Director (with A. Damascelli and R. Shimano), Max Planck Society - University of British Columbia - University of Tokyo Center for Quantum Materials
2014 -                       Founding Member, Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg (mentoring network for female group leaders in the Max Planck Society)

 

Advisory and reviewing roles

2024 -Member (2024) and Chair (2025), Scientific Evaluation Panel, ATTRACT Program, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
2022 -                        Member (2022) and Chair ( 2024), Advanced Grant Panel PE3, European Research Council
2015 - 2024              Chair, University Council, University of Stuttgart
2022 - 2024              International Chair, Advanced and Consolidator Grant Review Panels, Swiss National Science Foundation
2015 - 2021              Member (2025-2019) and Chair (2020-2021), Scientific Evaluation Panel, CORE Program, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
2018                           Chair, Scientific Evaluation Committee, Emerging Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) Program, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
2016                           Chair, Decadal Review Committee, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
2014 -                         Chair, Instumentation Committee, Neutron Source FRM-II, Munich
2005 -                         Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Neutron Source FRM-II, Munich
2016 - 2019               Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Quantum Materials, Johns Hopkins University
2014 - 2021               Member, Executive Board, Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology (IQST), Stuttgart/Ulm
2009 - 2021               Member, Steering Committee, Transregional Research Center 80, German Research Foundation (DFG)
2012 - 2017               Member, Scientific Advisory Board, University of Cologne
2010 - 2016               Member, Neutron Scattering Advisory Board, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2008 - 2017               Member, Fellowship Selection Committee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2009 - 2015               Member & Chair, International Prize Committee, German Physical Society
2009 - 2014               Member, Supervisory Board, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany
2004 - 2008               Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Quantum Materials Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2003 - 2007               Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Institut Laue Langevin
2003 - 2008                Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin
1996 - 1998                Member, Steering Committee, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

Editorial boards

2014 - Editor, Springer Series in Solid State Sciences
2014             Editorial Advisor, Nature Milestones in Crystallography
2004 - 2013      Member, Editorial Board, European Physical Journal B
2000 - 2012      Member, Editorial Board, Science
2005 - 2009   Member, Editorial Board, Solid State Communications
2003 - 2005Member, Editorial Board, Physical Review Letters

 

Conference organization

2026Elected Chair, Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity, Stuttgart (≈1000 participants)
2016                               Chair, Conference on Spectroscopies in Novel Superconductors Ludwigsburg (250 participants)
2013                               Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity, Les Diablerets (150 participants)
2012 -                             Annual Workshops of the Max Planck - UBC - UTokyo Center at alternating locations

 

Teaching

2021 -graduate courses at the University of British Columbia
1999 -                             graduate courses at the University of Stuttgart
2003 -                             annual retreats and summer/winter schools of the IMPRS for Condensed Matter Science and the Graduate Center for Quantum Materials

 

Key Publications (selection)

Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Bernhard Keimer
Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study of Sr2RhO4
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116502 (2024)
Article

H. Suzuki, L. Wang, J. Bertinshaw, H. U. R. Strand, S. Käser, M. Krautloher, Z. Yang, N. Wentzell, O. Parcollet, F. Jerzembeck, N. Kikugawa, A. P. Mackenzie, A. Georges, P. Hansmann, H. Gretarsson, B. Keimer
Distinct spin and orbital dynamics in Sr2RuO4
Nature Comm. 14, 7042 (2023)
Article

L. Guasco, Yu. N. Khaydukov, S. Pütter, L. Silvi, M. A. Paulin, T. Keller, B. Keimer
Resonant neutron reflectometry for hydrogen detection
Nature Communications 13, 1486 (2022)
Article

H.-H. Kim, K. Ueda, S. Nakata, P. Wochner, A. Mackenzie, C. Hicks, G. Khaliullin, H. Liu, B. Keimer, M. Minola
Giant stress response of terahertz magnons in a spin-orbit Mott insulator
Nature Communications 13, 6674 (2022))
Article

H. Suzuki, H. Liu, J. Bertinshaw, K. Ueda, H. Kim, S. Laha, D. Weber, Z. Yang, L. Wang, H. Takahashi, K. Fürsich, M. Minola, B. V. Lotsch, B. J. Kim, H. Yavaş, M. Daghofer, J. Chaloupka, G. Khaliullin, H. Gretarsson, B. Keimer
Proximate ferromagnetic state in the Kitaev model material α-RuCl3
Nature Communications 12, 4512 (2021)
Article

H. Takahashi, H. Suzuki, J. Bertinshaw, S. Bette, C. Mühle, J. Nuss, R. Dinnebier, A. Yaresko, G. Khaliullin, H. Gretarsson, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, B. Keimer
Nonmagnetic J=0 State and Spin-Orbit Excitations in K2RuCl6
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 227201 (2021)
Article

H. Suzuki, H. Gretarsson, H. Ishikawa, K. Ueda, Z. Yang, H. Liu, H. Kim, D. Kukusta, A. Yaresko, M. Minola, J. A. Sears, S. Francoual, H.-C. Wille, J. Nuss, H. Takagi, B. J. Kim, G. Khaliullin, H. Yavas, B. Keimer
Spin waves and spin-state transitions in a ruthenate high-temperature antiferromagnet
Nature Materials 18, 563 (2019)
Article

H.-H. Kim, S. M. Souliou, M. E. Barber, E. Lefrançois, M. Minola, M. Tortora, R. Heid, N. Nandi, R. A. Borzi, G. Garbarino, A. Bosak, J. Porras, T. Loew, M. König, P. M. Moll, A. P. Mackenzie, B. Keimer, C. W. Hicks, M. Le Tacon.
Uniaxial pressure control of competing orders in a high-temperature superconductor
Science 362, 1040 (2018)
Article

M. Hepting, R. J. Green, Z. Zhong, M. Bluschke, Y. E. Suyolcu, S. Macke, A. Frano, S. Catalano, M. Gibert, R. Sutarto, F. He, G. Cristiani, G. Logvenov, Y. Wang, P. A. van Aken, P. Hansmann, M. Le Tacon, J.-M. Triscone, G. A. Sawatzky, B. Keimer, E. Benckiser
Complex magnetic order in nickelate slabs
Nature Physics 14, 1097 (2018)
Article

A. Jain, M. Krautloher, J. Porras, G. H. Ryu, D. P. Chen, D. L. Abernathy, J. T. Park, A. Ivanov, J. Chaloupka, G. Khaliullin, B. Keimer, B. J. Kim
Higgs mode and its decay in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet
Nature Physics 13, 633 (2017)
Article

B. Keimer, J. E. Moore
The physics of quantum materials
Nature Physics 13, 1045 (2017)
Article

A. Frano, S. Blanco-Canosa, E. Schierle, Y. Lu, M. Wu, M. Bluschke, M. Minola, G. Christiani, H. U. Habermeier, G. Logvenov, Y. Wang, P. A. van Aken, E. Benckiser, E. Weschke, M. Le Tacon, B. Keimer
Long-range charge-density-wave proximity effect at cuprate/manganate interfaces
Nature Materials 15, 831 (2016)
Article

B. Keimer, S. A. Kivelson, M. R. Norman, S. Uchida, J. Zaanen
From quantum matter to high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides
Nature 518, 179 (2015)
Article

M. Le Tacon, A. Bosak, S. M. Souliou, G. Dellea, T. Loew, R. Heid, K-P. Bohnen, G. Ghiringhelli, M. Krisch, B. Keimer
Inelastic X-ray scattering in YBa2Cu3O6.6 reveals giant phonon anomalies and elastic central peak due to charge-density-wave formation
Nature Physics 10, 52 (2014)
Article

A. Frano, E. Schierle, M. W. Haverkort, Y. Lu, M. Wu, S. Blanco-Canosa, U. Nwankwo, A. V. Boris, P. Wochner, G. Cristiani, H. U. Habermeier, G. Logvenov, V. Hinkov, E. Benckiser, E. Weschke, B. Keimer
Orbital control of noncollinear magnetic order in nickelate heterostructures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 106804 (2013)
Article

S. P. Bayrakci, D. A. Tennant, Ph. Leininger, T. Keller, M. C. R. Gibson, S. D. Wilson, R. J. Birgeneau, B. Keimer
Lifetimes of Antiferromagnetic Magnons in Two and Three Dimensions: Experiment, Theory, and Numerics
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 017204 (2013)
Article

G. Ghiringhelli, M. Le Tacon, M. Minola, S. Blanco-Canosa, C. Mazzoli, N.B. Brookes, G. M. De Luca, A. Frano, D. G. Hawthorn, F. He, T. Loew, M. Moretti Sala, D. C. Peets, M. Salluzzo, E. Schierle, R. Sutarto, G. A. Sawatzky, E. Weschke, B. Keimer, L. Braicovich
Long-Range Incommensurate Charge Fluctuations in (Y,Nd)Ba2Cu3O6+x
Science 337, 821 (2012)
Article

E. Benckiser, M. W. Haverkort, S. Brück, E. Goering, S. Macke, A. Frañó, X. Yang, O. K. Andersen, G. Cristiani, H. U. Habermeier, A. V. Boris, I. Zegkinoglou, P. Wochner, H. J. Kim, V. Hinkov, B. Keimer
Orbital reflectometry of oxide heterostructures
Nature Materials 10, 189 (2011)
Article

M. Le Tacon, G. Ghiringhelli, J. Chaloupka, M. Moretti Sala, V. Hinkov, M. W. Haverkort, M. Minola, M. Bakr, K. J. Zhou, S. Blanco-Canosa, C. Monney, Y. T. Song, G. L. Sun, C. T. Lin, G. M. De Luca, M. Salluzzo, G. Khaliullin. T. Schmitt, L. Braicovich, B. Keimer.
Intense paramagnon excitations in a large family of high-temperature superconductors
Nature Physics 7, 725 (2011)
Article

A. V. Boris, Y. Matiks, E. Benckiser, A. Frañó, P. Popovich, V. Hinkov, P. Wochner, M. Castro-Colin, E. Detemple, V. K. Malik, C. Bernhard, T. Prokscha, A. Suter, Z. Salman, E. Morenzoni, G. Cristiani, H.-U. Habermeier, B. Keimer
Dimensionality control of electronic phase transitions in nickel-oxide superlattices
Science 332, 937 (2011)
Article

N. Driza, S. Blanco-Canosa, M. Bakr, S. Soltan, M. Khalid, L. Mustafa, K. Kawashima, G. Christiani, H.-U. Habermeier, G. Khaliullin, C. Ulrich, M. Le Tacon, B. Keimer
Long-range transfer of electron-phonon coupling in oxide superlattices
Nature Materials 11, 675 (2012)
Article

T. Dahm, V. Hinkov, S. V. Borisenko, A. A. Kordyuk, V. B. Zabolotnyy, J. Fink, B. Büchner, D. J. Scalapino, W. Hanke, B. Keimer
Strength of the spin-fluctuation-mediated pairing interaction in a high-temperature superconductor
Nature Physics 5, 217 (2009)
Article

V. Hinkov, D. Haug, B. Fauqué, P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, A. Ivanov, C. Bernhard, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer
Electronic Liquid Crystal State in the High-Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.45
Science 319, 597 (2008)
Article

J. Chakhalian, J. W. Freeland, H.-U. Habermeier, G. Cristiani, G. Khaliullin, M. van Veenendaal, B. Keimer
Orbital reconstruction and covalent bonding at an oxide interface
Science 318, 1114 (2007)
Article

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