Rupert Huber (physicist)

Rupert Huber is a German physicist and university professor. Huber is known for his research in terahertz technology and semiconductor physics.

Career

Huber attended the Technical University of Munich where he majored in physics. He was awarded a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley. In 2010 he became a professor at the University of Regensburg.

Awards

2004: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2007: Emmy-Noether grant and DFG junior research group
2008: European THz Young Investigator Award from the European Optical Society
2009: Rudolf Kaiser Prize of the Donors' Association for German Science
2012: ERC Starting Grant
2016: Prize for good teaching at the state universities in Bavaria
2019: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
2019: Appointment as Fellow of the Optical Society of America