Klaus Richter

Klaus Richter has held a chair in Theoretical Physics at the University of Regensburg in Germany since 2001. His group, Complex Quantum Systems, conducts research in the fields of condensed matter physics and quantum dynamics. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Freiburg in 1991 and postdoctoral stays in Paris and Augsburg he was a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. He was awarded the title "Professor of the Year" (in Germany) by the UNICUM Foundation in 2022. From 2024 to 2026 he was president of the German Physical Society.