Friederike Schmid

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Friederike Schmid is a German theoretical condensed-matter physicist and polymer scientist whose research involves the theory of complex fluids and polymer emulsions. She is a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Mainz. [1]

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Education and career

Schmid studied physics as an undergraduate at Heidelberg University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, earning a diploma in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Mainz. [1]

After postdoctoral research at the University of Washington and as an assistant to Kurt Binder at the University of Mainz, she earned a habilitation in 1997. From 1999 to 2000 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and in 2000 she obtained a professorship in theoretical physics at Bielefeld University. She moved to her present position as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Mainz in 2009. [1]

Recognition

Schmid was a 1998 recipient of the Gerhard Hess Award  [ de ] of the German Research Foundation. [1] She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2022, after a nomination from the APS Division of Polymer Physics, "for innovative contributions in the development and application of dynamic density functional theory of polymers and dynamic coarse-graining approaches for soft matter in general". [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Prof. Dr. Friederike Schmid", Center for Innovative and Emerging Materials, University of Mainz, retrieved 2023-11-01
  2. "Fellows nominated in 2022 by the Division of Polymer Physics", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2023-11-01