Prof. Dr Malte C. Gather - Curriculum Vitae
| Professional career | |
| since Oct. 2019 | Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany |
| since Aug. 2013 | Professor, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK |
| Oct. 2011 – April 2014 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvard University, USA |
| Jul. 2012 – Dec. 2012 | Research Scientist, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices (COMEDD), Dresden, Germany |
| Oct. 2011 – Aug 2013 | Junior-Professor (tenure track), Institut für Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
| May 2009 – Sept. 2011 | Bullock Fellow, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, USA |
| Nov. 2008 – Apr 2009 | Research Fellow, Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland |
| Dec. 2004 – Oct. 2008 | Researcher and Teaching Assistant, Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| Education | |
| Oct. 2008 | PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany (“summa cum laude”) Title for dissertation: “Electronic, Optical and Lifetime Aspects of OLEDs” advisor Prof. K. Meerholz |
| Nov. 2004 | MSc Physics (Optics & Photonics), Imperial College London, UK (“with distinction”) MSc project: “Novel Materials for Aligned Polymer OLEDs” advisor Prof. D.D.C. Bradley |
| Sept. 2023 | Vordiplom Physics and BSc Materials Science, RWTH Aachen, Germany |
| Awards/Fellowships | |
| Oct. 2025 | Elected Member, German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) |
| April 2023 | ERC Advanced Grant „HyAngle” |
| April 2020 | Guest Member, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste |
| Mai 2019 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship – €5M - most highly-endowed research award in Germany |
| July 2016 | Institute of Physics Paterson Medal and Prize – awarded for distinguished research in applied physics |
| June 2015 | ERC Starting Grant „ABLASE” |
| Feb. 2013 | Rudolf-Kaiser-Preis in Experimental Physics – awarded annually to one young German physicist |
| Jan. 2012 | 2-year fellowship by Daimler und Benz Stiftung |
| Dec. 2011 | Paper on single cell living lasers selected as one of the “top10 breakthroughs in physics in 2011” by Physics World |
| Dec. 2009 | Bullock-Wellman Fellowship |
| March 2009 | Dissertation award of the German Physical Society (DPG), Section “Condensed Matter” |
| Jul. 2006 | Invited as Young Researcher at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting |
| Aug. 2004 | Imperial College Glady’s Locke Award for best MSc in 2004 |