As a director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, Professor Cavalleri leads the Condensed Matter Dynamics Department. His work focuses on the physics of strongly correlated electron systems.
Andrea Cavalleri is a founding member of the MPSD in Hamburg. Credit: MPSD
He became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year and is a Professor of Physics at the Universities of Hamburg and Oxford.
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The organisation now has around 4,000 members, including 72 Nobel Laureates. They are eminent scientists and scholars from all disciplines. Membership is granted to individuals who have been nominated, scrutinised and elected by their peers. Text: MPSD