Laurens W. Molenkamp

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Laurens W. Molenkamp is Chair of Experimental Physics III and Head of Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. He is also a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Molenkamp’s research focuses on quantum transport in nanostructures, the optical spectroscopy of semiconductors and semiconductor spintronics. Editor of Physical Review B, Molenkamp has been recognized with numerous awards including the Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society (2017) and the American Physical Society’s Oliver E. Buckley Prize (2012).