Alexander Bradshaw studied chemistry at the University of London where he obtained his PhD in 1969. From 1980 to 1998 he was Scientific Member and Head of the Department of Surface Physics at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin as well as Scientific Director of the Synchrotron Radiation Source BESSY from 1981 to 1989.
He is a member of the German Academy of Engineering (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy and Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences as well as Honorary ¬Professor of Physics at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Munich. From 1998 - 2000 he was President of the German Physical Society (DPG). The results of his research in surface physics, molecular photoionisation and synchrotron radiation instrumentation have resulted in over 400 publications and several awards. He co-founded the open access journal „New Journal of Physics in 1998 and initiated the German Year of Physics (Jahr der Physik) in 2000.
He received the Public Understanding of Physics Prize of the European Physical Society in 2001, the German Federal Cross of Merit in 2002 and an Honorary DSc from the University of London in 2005. Since 1999 he is the Scientific Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Munich and chairs the German nuclear fusion programme.
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