Dr. Gerrit Horstmann
Dr. Gerrit Horstmann
Campus Hubland South
Am Hubland
Since 2025
Independent Junior Research Group Leader at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, funded by the programme Excellent Ideas II.
2022–2025
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, in the group of Prof. Manfred Fiebig. Research on nonequilibrium dynamics in ferroic materials.
2021–2022
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen.
2016–2021
PhD in Physics, University of Göttingen, supervised by Prof. Claus Ropers. Dissertation: Ultrafast Probing and Coherent Vibrational Control of a Surface Structural Phase Transition.
2010–2016
Studies in Physics, University of Göttingen.
2026
Fellowship of the Daimler and Benz Foundation
2023
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
2023
Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) (declined)
2023
Shortlisted for the Dissertation Prize of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) of the German Physical Society
2022
ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship
2021
Born–Franck Dissertation Prize, University of Göttingen
2018
ECOSS Prize
2016
Lower Saxony Science Award in the category Students
2016
Special Prize of the Foundation Council, University of Göttingen
2011–2016
Scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
