LU konference
Dr. Bernd Kaestner is a scientist with an unusual career track. He has started with a Master thesis in theoretical quantum optics, then Ph.D. from University of Cambridge and research associate experience at Hitachi Cambridge made him semiconductor nanodevices experimentalist. During his tenure at PTB Braunschweig in Germany, Bernd Kaestner has becomes a leading expert in fundamental electrical metrology, and in 2014 he has shared a Helmholtz prize (top scientific award in metrology) for the development of the new SI ampere prototype. In 2014 Dr. Kaestner has changed the track again and is now a leader of an interdisciplinary team at PTB Berlin electron storage ring where he develops instrumentation to explore a diverse range of materials, chemical and biological systems.
The seminar is an informal story of ups and down of a research career and the nature of modern collaborative and interdisciplinary research.