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Rainer Waser received his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Darmstadt in 1984, and worked at the Philips Research Laboratory, Aachen, until he was appointed Professor at the faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the RWTH Aachen University in 1992 and director of the Institute for Electronic Materials at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, in 1997. He is member of the Emerging Research Devices working group of the ITRS, and he has been collaborating with major semiconductor industries in Europe, the US, and the Far East. Since 2002, he has been the coordinator and spokesman of the research program on Nanoelectronic Systems in Information Technology within the Germany national research centres in the Helmholtz Association. In 2007, he has been co-founder of the Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, section Fundamentals of Future Information Technology (JARA-FIT). Together with Professor Wuttig, he heads a collaborative research center on resistively switching chalcogenides for future electronics (SFB 917) which comprises of 14 institutes within JARA-FIT and has been funded by the German national science foundation (DFG) since 2011. In 2014, Rainer Waser received the Leibniz Prize of the DFG for his work on the phenomenon of redox-based resistive switching.
1974-1979
Studies of Chemistry (Field: Physical Chemistry)
Technische Universität Darmstadt
1978-1979
Diploma in Chemistry, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, Institut für Physikalische Chemie (Prof. Dr. A. Weiss);
Topic: „Aufbau eines JFET-Oszillator-Detektors nach dem Prinzip von Pound und Knight als Kernquadrupolresonanz-Spektrometer“
1979-1980
1980-1984
Scientific Assistant at the Institut für Physikalische Chemie, TH Darmstadt (Prof. Dr. K.G. Weil); Topic: „Studien zur Bildung Beweglichkeit von Oberflächenkomplexen an der Silber/Elektrolyt-Grenzfläche“.
1984
Ph. D. defense (summa cum laude).
1984-1992
Scientist at the Philips Research Laboratories Aachen (research group Electronic Ceramics)
1992
Full professor at the Institut für Werkstoffe der Elektrotechnik, Lehrstuhl II, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen
1997
Director at the Institut für Festkörperforschung (now: Peter Grünberg Institute), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (as a supplement to the professorship at the RWTH Aachen)
2002
Spokesman of the HGF-Research Programme Information Technology with Nanoelectronic Systems within the Helmholtz Association, Germany
2007
Initiator of the Section “Fundamentals of Future Information Technology” of the Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA-FIT) between Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University
2010-
Spokesman of the HGF-Research Programme Fundamentals of Future Information Technology (FIT) within the Helmholtz Association, Germany
2012-2015
Spokesman of the professors (Professorensprecher), Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen
1980
Carl-Wagner-Prize awarded by the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany) for achievements in the field of defect chemistry of protons in perovskites
1990
John D. Moynihan Award from CARTS Europe; sponsored by the International Electronic Components Institute
1994
Edward C. Henry Award from the American Ceramic Society (jointly with T. Baiatu and K. H. Härdtl)
2000
Ferroelectrics Recognition Award 2000 from the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society
2001
Award of the International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (ISIF):
“Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Integrated Ferroelectrics”
2003 –
Working Group “Emerging Research Devices” der International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
2004
Appointment as Adjunct Professor by the School of Electronics and Information Engineering of Xi´an Jiaotong University, China (2004 – 2008)
2006
Admittance to the Akademie der Wissenschaften Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany)
2007
Masao Ikeda Award, Ikeda Memorial Foundation, Kyoto, Japan in recognition of “Excellent contribution to the characterization of ferroelectric thin films for non-volatile memory”
2013
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize 2014 awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2014
Tsungming Tu Award 2014 awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan (award ceremony April 17th, 2015)
2015
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Silesian University of Katowice, Poland
2015
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Silesian University of Katowice, Poland
2015
RWTH Fellow 2015 awarded by the RWTH Aachen University for outstanding research achievements contributed to the University within the framework of the Excellence Initiative
2016
Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of Wiley’s Journal Advanced Materials Technologies
2017
W.R. Buessem Award awarded by the Center of Dielectrics & Piezoelectrics (CDP)
Most relevant book:
“Nanoelectronics and Information Technology – Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Devices”
Rainer Wasser (editor and author of the block instructions) 3rd, Completely Revised and Enlarged Edition, Wiley-VCH 1048 pages, full color