doctoral_advisor work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date known_for residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
theodor hänsch harvard university hannover , germany german physics 20 august 1973 optical lattices , mott insulator usa otto-klung-weberbank-preis 2011 i. rabi prize in atomic , molecular or optical 2005 physics 2013 william l. mcmillan award 2005 macarthur fellow markus greiner
 markus greiner ludwig-maximilians university max planck institute of quantum optics
markus greiner

markus greiner is a german physicist .
he is the winner of the thesis award of the american physical society 2004 and of the william l. mcmillan award 2005 for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics .
he was named a 2011 macarthur fellow he studied under the 2005 nobel laureate theodor hänsch at the ludwig-maximilians university and at the max-planck-institute of quantum optics , where he received his diploma in physics .
the diploma thesis was entitled '' '' transport of magnetically trapped atoms : a simple approach to bose-einstein condensation '' '' .
he earned his phd for his work on '' `` bose-einstein condensates in three-dimensional optical lattices '' '' at the same institution .
he then moved to the united states and from 2003 - 2005 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the joint institute for astrophysics -lrb- jila -rrb- in boulder , colorado .
there , he worked on the creation of a fermionic condensate of ultracold atoms .
he is a professor of physics at harvard university .
