Background
Keitel, Christoph Helmut was born on July 30, 1965 in Lübeck, Germany. Son of Gottfried H. K. and Katharina I. Mandel.
physicist university professor
Keitel, Christoph Helmut was born on July 30, 1965 in Lübeck, Germany. Son of Gottfried H. K. and Katharina I. Mandel.
Keitel studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Hanover and Physics at the University of Munich, Germany, where he graduated in 1990. As a Doctor of Philosophy student, he worked with Professor Doctor G. Süssmann, mainly supervised by Professor
Marlan O. Scully and Professor
L. M. Collge Pharmacy Narducci.
After several years of research in New Mexico, United States of America and at Imperial College, London, he worked as a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In 1998, he became a Sonderforschungsbereich junior research group leader at the University of Freiburg, Germany. In the year 2000, he obtained the degree of a lecturer and the venia legendi at the University of Freiburg with his post-doctoral thesis on Atomic Systems in Intense Laser Fields.
After working as a lecturer at the universities of Freiburg and Düsseldorf, he was appointed Director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, in 2004, whereof he was the Managing Director 2006 to 2008.
In 2005, he was appointed honorary professor at Heidelberg University. His main areas of research are theoretical laser-induced quantum dynamics, quantum electrodynamics as well as nuclear and high-energy physics with extremely strong laser fields (see also homepage of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics).
In 2003, he was awarded the by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society).