Schuessler appointed to physics chair which bears his name
COLLEGE STATION —
Dr. Hans A. Schuessler, professor of physics specializing in optical and biomedical physics, has been appointed to the Schuessler/Mitchell/Heep Chair in Experimental Optical and Biomedical Physics in the Department of Physics at Texas A&M University.
This chair was recently endowed with gifts from Schuessler, George P. Mitchell, of The Woodlands, and a match from the Herman F. and Minnie Belle Heep Foundation in College Station. Schuessler said he made his donation to honor both his late first wife Renate, as well as his wife Zohreh. He said he was also grateful to his students, colleagues, and dean for helping and sharing the excitement and hard work of research.
“My department is on the verge of several ambitious projects,” Schuessler said. “In particular, one of them will be supported by this chair, namely our effort to establish the SIBOR (Stored Ion and Bio Optical Research) center at Texas A&M, and will strengthen our present interdisciplinary effort, to pave the way for life science and engineering students to get expertise in biomedical optics.”
Schuessler’s work is world renowned. His basic research is in ion storage spectroscopy, on-line laser spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes, and quantum optics. The applied research covers cavity-enhanced photothermal spectroscopy, capillary waves, non-linear acoustic phenomena, and studies of biomolecular reactions in real time using the surface plasmon resonance.
“We were happy that we were able to find funds for this chair and then appoint Dr. Schuessler to it,” said Edward S. Fry, head of the Department of Physics. “Schuessler has made many research accomplishments and we are looking forward to his next ones.”
Schussler has served as visiting associate professor at the University of Washington and visiting scientist at the University of Mainz and GSI in Germany. He has been collaborating on research done at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and currently is performing experiments at Texas A&M in optical and biophysics. He is leading the laser laboratory at the Texas A&M University Institute for Biosciences and Technology in Houston, on-line nuclear structure laser spectroscopy at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, and stored ion spectroscopy at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics at Garching, Germany. He was awarded Eminent Scientist status at RIKEN at Tokyo, Japan for his contributions to study short lived isotope with a novel ion trap, which he invented. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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