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Ulf Leonhardt


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Ulf Leonhardt, FRSE (born October 9, 1965 in Schlema, Germany) is a German scientist. In 2006, he published the first scientific paper on invisibility cloaking with metamaterials at the same time Pendry's group published their paper in the journal Science. He has been involved with the science of cloaking objects since then.

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He is a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder from the Royal Society, and he is currently Professor of Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is involved in research pertaining to metamaterials. Specific disciplines are quantum electrodynamics in media, perfect imaging, optical analogues of the event horizon, reverse casimir effect, metamaterial cloaking, quantum effects of optical phenomena involving Hawking radiation and Light in moving media.

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Career

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In 1993, Leonhardt earned his PhD (theoretical physics) from the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 1998 to 2000 he was in Stockholm at the Royal Institute of Technology as a Göran-Gustafsson Fellow. He held the chair (theoretical physics) at the University of St Andrews in Scotland between April, 2000 and 2012. Since 2012 he has been a Professor of Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Awards and honors

Professor Ulf Leonhardt is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Award of the Max Planck Society. In August 2009, the Royal Society's Theo Murphy Blue Skies award allowed Leonhardt to research a new theory for applying metamaterials to optical cloaking full-time.

Books authored

Ulf Leonhardt has authored, coauthored or edited the following books:

  • Ulf Leonhardt (March 2010). Essential Quantum Optics: From Quantum Measurements to Black Holes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-14505-3.  277 pages.
  • Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas Philbin (2010). Geometry and Light. The Science of Invisibility. Dover Publications, Inc. ISBN 978-0-486-47693-3. 278 pages.
  • Ulf Leonhardt (October 1997). Measuring the Quantum State of Light. Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-49730-5. doi:10.2277/0521497302.  208 pages. PDF available here.

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