Ranko Richert

Arizona State University, USA

Ranko Richert received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Marburg, Germany, in 1985, and the Habilitation in physical chemistry in 1991. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 1993 and as a Senior Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, from 1993 to 1999. He has been a Lecturer since 1994 in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Mainz before joining the Arizona State University faculty in 1999. His current position is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University. The experimental research in this group adresses the physical chemistry of soft condensed matter by optical spectroscopy (triplet state solvation dynamics) and by linear and nonlinear dielectric relaxation experiments. They are interested in understanding the relaxation and transport phenomena in disordered materials and how they relate to the structure, length scale, dynamics, and interactions. The research topics cover the phenomena associated with glass transitions, interfacial effects, geometric confinement, relaxation and retardation processes, details of the molecular dynamics, spatial heterogeneities, nanoscopic heatflow, and the relation between macroscopic and microscopic properties.

Biography Updated on 22 July 2009

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