A new initiative for cooperation with South Korea has been launched

The foundation assembly of the joint Max Planck / Korea Research Initiative took place in Pohang, Korea

July 19, 2011

Together with the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), the Max Planck Society gave the starting signal for the “Korea Foundation for Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative″, which shall be strengthened by the cooperation between both institutions.

All in all, the initiative comprises a Max Planck POSTECH Center for Attosecond Science headed by Ferenc Krausz from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a Max Planck POSTECH Center for Complex Phase Materials under the leadership of Liu Hao Tjeng from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Moreover, two Max Planck Research Groups shall be set up in Dresden und in Pohang, South Korea.

Within the scope of the initiative, these two Max Planck Centers will erect a new basis for existing cooperation between scientists working at the Max Planck institutes involved and the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), a Korean research university marked by exceptionally dynamic expansion; support will be given to the exchange of experience and knowledge, the transfer of personnel and, above all, to joint training for junior scientists.

The Max Planck POSTECH Center for Attosecond Science, whose foundation was sealed by contract on July 11, 2011, comprises different international partners from Germany, Australia, China and Japan. In addition to Ferenc Krausz, Joachim Ullrich from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Working Group for Structural Dynamics at the CFEL, Jan Rost from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and Martin Wolf from the Fritz Haber Institute represent the Max Planck Society in this network. Dong Eon Kim from the POSTECH and Ferenc Krausz jointly form the Center’s Leading Team.

The “Research Initiative″ with South Korea was initiated by Peter Fulde, retired Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. In 2007 he assumed a professorship at the POSTECH and became the head of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics situated on the campus of the University.

The Max Planck Center for Attosecond Science is one of a total of nine Max Planck Centers, which are currently being planned or established at eight sites worldwide.

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