René Beigang

René Beigang received the Graduate degree from the University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, in 1979. He received his Habilitation from the Free University of Berlin in 1984 and spent three years as a Heisenberg stipend at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. In 1990, he moved to the University in Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he is a Professor in the Department of Physics. His scientific interest started with laser physics, nonlinear optics, and the generation and application of ultrashort pulses in fundamental science and biophysics. From here he moved into the field of generation and application of broadband THz radiation using ultrashort laser pulses in combination with electro-optical methods and nonlinear optics. He contributed to the field of THz metamaterials, time-domain spectroscopy, compact fiber coupled THz systems, and nondestructive testing. During the last 10 years, in particular, applications in an industrial environment were in the focus of his research activities.