Andreas Wicht

Andreas Wicht received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. In 1999, he joined the Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, to work on the precise determination of the fine structure constant by means of atom interferometry. From 2002 to 2008, he was affiliated with the University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, where he was involved in precision spectroscopy experiments on cold molecules. In 2009, he joined the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Berlin, Germany. Since then, he has focused on the development of microintegrated semiconductor lasers and other electro-optical devices for fundamental physics experiments in space.