Martin R. Hofmann joined the Ruhr-University Bochum in August 2001 as Professor for Optoelectronic Devices and Materials. In 2008, he took over the chair for Photonics and Terahertz Technology (PTT) also at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He studied physics at the Philipps-University Marburg, made his diploma in 1991, and finished his PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Ernst Göbel in 1994 (Topic: Gain dynamics of mode locked laser diodes). From 1995 to spring 1996 he worked as a Post Doc within the European Union Human Capital and Mobility program at the University College Cork, Ireland, at the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome, Italy, and at Tele Danmark Research in Hoersholm, Denmark. From spring 1996 to July 2001 he was research assistant in the group of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rühle at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and at the Philipps-University Marburg. He received his habilitation in Experimental Physics in April 2000 at the Philipps-University Marburg. He has been author or co-author of more than 400 publications in international journals or on international conferences on the fields of optoelectronic devices, THz technology, and modern optical systems. As PI of the RUB partner in the “SpinDataCom” project, he is particularly involved in characterizing ultrafast spin-VCSELs and spin-VECSELs within WP3.
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