Elke Scheer


Elke Scheer is a German experimental condensed matter physicist whose research focuses on the transport of electrical charge at the single-molecule scale and related effects, including molecular electronics and mesoscale superconductivity. She is a professor of physics at the University of Konstanz, where she heads the Mesoscopic Systems Group.

Education and career

Scheer earned a diploma in physics in 1990, at the Karlsruhe [Institute of Technology], through research supervised by Hilbert von Löhneysen. Continuing to work with von Löhneysen at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, she completed a doctorate in 1995.
After postdoctoral research at CEA Paris-Saclay, she returned to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1997. She took her present position as a professor at the University of Konstanz in 2000.

Recognition

Scheer received the 1999 Gustav Hertz Prize of the German [Physical Society], and the 2000 Alfried Krupp Prize for Young Professors. She is a member of the Heidelberg [Academy of Sciences and Humanities], elected in 2009.