Background
Waser, Rainer was born on September 16, 1955 in Frankfurt, Main, Germany. Son of Totila and Marianne Waser.
educator physico-chemist and electrical engineer
Waser, Rainer was born on September 16, 1955 in Frankfurt, Main, Germany. Son of Totila and Marianne Waser.
He studied Physical Chemistry at Darmstadt University of Technology where he received a diploma degree in 1979. After that he turned to Darmstadt and worked as scientific assistant until he completed his Doctor of Philosophy.
He is also director of the section Electronic Materials at the Peter Grünberg Institute which is located on the campus of Jülich Research Center (Forschungszentrum Jülich). His research and teaching is on solid-state chemistry and defect chemistry to electronic properties and modelling, the technology of new materials and the physical properties of construction components. Important findings include insights in the functioning of the so-called memristors.
Then he went to the University of Southampton to conduct research at the Institute of Electrochemistry.
He subsequently joined the Philips research laboratories (research group Electronic Ceramics) at Aachen. In 1992, he accepted a Chair for Electronic Materials in the Faculty of Electrical Science and Information Technology at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University.
In 2012, he was elected to the post of Speaker of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Aachen university. A comprehensive list can be found in the cv on the institute"s website.
Fellow of the North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
Spokesperson of the section Future information technology (Fashion Institute Of Technology) within the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
Executive Advisory Board Member of the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Married Michaela Haust, May 17, 1985. Children: Julian, Jasmina.