Name

Reiner Peter Schmid

Date of Birth

2 February 1964

Nationality

German

4/2005

Habilitation

2/2004-3/2007

Guest Professor at the chair of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus.

2/1998- /2004

Assistant at the chair of Physical and Analytical Chemistry at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus.

Research projects: nonlinear optics at interfaces, ultrafast transient gratings in large bandgap materials, laser ionization with ultrashort light pulses, analytical applications of laser mass spectrometry.

Research advisor: Prof. Dr. J. Reif

4/1996-12/1997

Postdoctoral researcher (MINERVA-Fellowship) at the
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Research project: vibrationally mediated
photodissociation, state selective dissociation of acetylene isotopomers.

11/1995-2/1996

Visting scientist at the National Institute of Advanced
Interdisciplinary Research (NAIR), Cluster Science Group,
Tsukuba, Japan

Research project: IR-UV-REMPI-DR-ion-depletion-
spectroscopy of aniline-Van der Waals-cluster systems

Research director: Dr. H. Takeo

5/1991-6/1995

Doctor's degree at the Universität Ulm, Germany,
Department of Physical Chemistry

Research project: photoionization investigation of cluster
formation in heterocyclic compounds and their reactions with acidic species

Title of thesis: Photo-Ionisationsspektroskopische
Untersuchungen an Molekülclustern und Metallatomen

Research advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Jones

10/1994-12/1994

Visiting scientist at MSRC Battelle Institute Richland, WA, U.S.A.

Research project: ionization detected rotational coherence spectroscopy of mass selected molecular clusters

Research advisor: Dr. D. Ray

9/1990-4/1991

Diploma thesis

Title: REMPI-TOF-spectrocopic investigations on derivatives of Benzene

Research advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Jones

10/1984–5/1991

Studies of chemistry at the Universität Ulm
Main subject: Physical Chemistry

Degree: Diplom-Chemiker (Diploma)