Karl Joachim Ebeling

Karl J. Ebeling (SM'83) was born in Hehlen, Germany, on October 27, 1949. He received the Diplom-Physiker degree and the Dr.rer.nat. and Dr.rer.nat.habil. degrees, both in physics, from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 1973, 1976, and 1984, respectively. In 1982 and 1983, he was a Guest Scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. In 1985, he was appointed Professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. He has been a Professor at the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Head of the Optoelectronics Department since 1989, and a Director of the Microtechnology Center since 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and from 1995 to 2001, he was a Vice President of the University of Ulm, responsible for research matters, among others. While on leave from the University from 2001 to 2003, he was Senior Vice President of Central Research at Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany, the former semiconductor branch of Siemens Corporation. In fall 2003, he returned to the University of Ulm as Rektor. He has published more than 300 technical papers and a book titled Integrated Optoelectronics (Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. His research interests include high-bit-rate optical communication systems and novel semiconductor lasers, in particular vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diodes and short wavelength emitters based on nitrides. Prof. Eberling was elected as a Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science in 1998. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 1987, the Book Award of the Informationtechnische Gesellschaft in 1990, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award in 1997, the Photonics West Optoelectronics Paper Award in 2000, and the MOC'01 Award in 2001.