The Dresden Barkhausen Award 2012 will be awarded upon our nomination to Prof. Philip Kim (Columbia University, New York, USA). The award ceremony will take place on February 10, 13:00 at Fraunhofer IZFP Dresden (Maria-Reiche-Straße 2, 01109 Dresden), for an overview of the programme please see here.

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Prof. Philip Kim obtained his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics at Harvard University in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He spent a first postdoctoral stay at the University of California, Berkeley from 1999 to 2001. He then started in 2002 as Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of Columbia University and later on promoted to Associate Professor (2006) and Full Professor in 2009. The impact of Prof. Kim's research is reflected in the numerous awards he has received within a very short time period, among them the Miller Research Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley (1999-2001), the National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2004), the Columbia University Distinguished Faculty Award (2007), the Ho-Am Science Prize (2008), and the IBM Faculty Award (2009). Due to the relevance of his scientific work but also to the very accessible way of his presentations, Philip Kim has presented more than 150 invited talks in the last 10 years and has authored more than 80 publications in peer-review high impact journals.