Annette Zippelius

Annette Zippelius (born 25 June 1949) is a German physicist, Leibniz Prize winner and an emeritus professor from the University of Göttingen known for her research on complex fluids and soft matter.^[1] In 1988 she was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, making her the first woman to be appointed as a professor of C4 physics in Germany.^[2] And in 1998, She was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for the construction of an exact network-model with the functioning proprieties of an associative memory.^[2] Most recently, in 2023 she was awarded the University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen for her service to the university.^[2]

Annette Zippelius studied Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. And in 1977, she finished her PhD at the Technical University München. From 1978 to 1980, she was a postdoctoral associate at Harvard University, and from 1980 to 1981 was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University.^[1]

In 1983 she joined the Forschungszentrum Jülich as a researcher.^[1]

She is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Göttingen.^[1]

• 1993: Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen).^[3]
• 1998: Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)^[1]
• 2002 – 2006: Member of the Executive Board of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)^[1]
• 2005 – 2011: Member of The German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)^[1]
• 2007 – 2014: Max-Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen^[1]
• 2008: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society^[1]
• 2022: Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society^[4]
• 2023: Awarded The University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen^[2]