Rainer Waser

Rainer Waser (born September 16, 1955, in Frankfurt)is a German professor of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University.

He is also director of the section Electronic Materials at the Peter Grünberg Institute which is located on the campus of Jülich Research Center (Forschungszentrum Jülich).

His research and teaching is on solid-state chemistry and defect chemistry to electronic properties and modelling, the technology of new materials and the physical properties of construction components.

In 1992, Waser accepted a Chair for Electronic Materials in the Faculty of Electrical Science and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University.

In 2012, Waser was elected to the post of Speaker of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Aachen university.

Waser was awarded the renowned Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2014.

In 2020, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.

2015 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Silesia in Katowice

2014 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

2007 – Masao Ikeda Award, Ikeda Memorial Foundation, Kyoto, Japan

2001 – Outstanding Achievements Award, International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (ISIF)

2000 – Ferroelectrics Recognition Award, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society