10 Facts About Gerhard Materlik

Gerhard Materlik has made significant contributions to X-ray physics, notably improvements in the real-world application of synchrotron radiation.

Gerhard Materlik is a Professor of Facilities Science at the University College London since 2013.

Gerhard Materlik earned his doctorate from the University of Dortmund in 1975.

Gerhard Materlik was the leader of the team that constructed the accelerators, which speed up electrons to near the speed of light, and the instrumentation installed to apply this radiation in experiments covering a spectral range from infrared radiation up to X-rays.

Gerhard Materlik assisted in the development of synchrotron sources worldwide.

In 2007, Gerhard Materlik was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Gerhard Materlik was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011.

Gerhard Materlik has made important discoveries in the science and application of Synchroton Radiation and is the leader of the team that constructed and now operates the world leading Diamond Light Source facility.

Gerhard Materlik has contributed to the many fields in the application of synchrotron x-rays most of which are now widely used experimental methods with SXR.

Gerhard Materlik has made notable contributions to the improvement of SXR sources, notably the soft X-ray FEL, FLASH at DESY, the newly commissioned hard X-ray FEL, LCLS at SLAC and the hard X-ray FEL, E-XFEL, currently been built at DESY.