Prof Joachim Luther
E-Mail: joachim.luther@ise.fraunhofer.de
Administrative Assistant:
Ulrike Schlegel
Phone: +49 (0) 761 / 45 88 - 52 10
Fax: +49 (0) 761 / 45 88 - 91 16
E-Mail: ulrike.schlegel@ise.fraunhofer.de
Professor Dr. Joachim Luther
1970
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Hanover (subject: atomic physics)
1974 – 1993
Professor for Applied Physics at the newly founded (1973) University of Oldenburg; Research topics: Oceanographic laser remote sensing, physics of renewable energy sources (from 1980)
1992 – 1993
Director of the „Institute for Solar Energy Research GmbH“ (ISFH)
1992 – 2001
Member of the „Board of Directors“, International Solar Energy Society (ISES)
1993
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Full Professor for Solid State Physics and Solar Energy at the University of Freiburg
1996 – 1998
Member of the Working Group „Energy Research“, Science Council of the Federal Republic of Germany
1997 - 2002
President of the "EUREC Agency, The European Association of Renewable Energy Research Centers"
1999 - 2002
Editor-in-Chief of the journal „Solar Energy“, Elsevier
1999 and 2003
Chairman of the German „Solar Energy Research Association (FVS)“
2000 – 2004
Member of the Advisory Council to the German Government on Global Change (WBGU)
2001 – 2006
Member of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
from 2005
Vice Chairman of the EU Technology Platform PV
2005 – 2006
Chairman of the Science and Technology Executive Committee of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
2005
- European Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics
- International Rheinland Prize for Environmental Protection
- German Environmental Award 2005, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt
July 2006
Emeritus professor at Fraunhofer ISE. Having reached retirement age, he handed over the leadership of the Institute to its new Director, Prof. Eicke R. Weber.
September 2006
Fraunhofer Coin for Outstanding Merits within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
from January 2007
Chairman of the "International Science Panel on Renewable Energies" (ISPRE)
from February 2007
Member of the Expert Commission of the German Government on Science and Innovation
from April 2008
CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS)
