ETH - Institute for Theoretical Physics

1967 - 1972	primary school in Giswil (Obwalden, Switzerland)
1972 - 1980	Gymnasium in Sarnen (Obwalden, Switzerland); Matura Type A (1980)
1986 - 1989	undergraduate study of physics at ETH Zurich
1989 - 1991	postdoc with Prof. K. Ueda at Tsukuba University, Japan
1991 - 1993	postdoc at PSI and ETH
1993 - 1995	postdoc with Prof. P.A. Lee at MIT, Cambridge, USA
1995 - 1997	PROFIL2-Fellow at ETH Zurich
1997 - 2001	Professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics of Kyoto University, Japan
2001 -	Professor at ETH Zurich Head of the Insitute for Theoretical Physics (Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2005, April 2011 - March 2013)

Visiting Scientist appointments

May - July 1989	Visiting scientist at the ABB Research Laboratory in Baden-Dätwil
May - July 1996	Visiting scientist at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Nov. 2006 - Feb. 2007	Visiting scientist at the Department of Physics, Kyoto University

Honors

Scholarship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Tsukuba University (1989-1990)
Scholarship for advanced researchers by Swiss Nationalfonds at MIT Cambrigde (1993-1995)
PROFIL-2 Fellowship of Swiss Nationalfonds (1995-1997)
Research Article Prize 1996 of the Physical Society of Japan for the article
"Paramagnetic Effect in High Tc Superconductors - A Hint for d-wave Superconductivity"
together with T.M. Rice
Latsis Prize of ETH Zurich 1997 of the Fondation Latsis International in Geneva for the work
on strongly correlated electron systems, in particular on unconventional superconductivity
Award of Merit 2000 by the Society for Non-Traditional Technology, Tokyo, Japan
for the research on unconventional superconductivity in non-cuprate transition metal oxide systems together with Y. Maeno
Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK 2004
Fellow of the American Physical Society 2011

Editorial positions

Editorial Board of Progress of Theoretical Physics, 1998 -
Editorial Board of Bussei Kenkyu (YITP) , 1998 - 2001
Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Society of Japan, 2000 -
Board of Reviewing Editors of Science, 2000/2001
Editorial Board of European Journal B: Condensed Matter, 2002 - 2009
Advisory Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (IOP), 2002 - 2007
Editorial Board of EducETH , 2005 -

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