Heinrich Jaeger

Heinrich Jaeger received his undergraduate education in Kiel, Germany, and his PhD in physics in 1987, working under Allen Goldman at the University of Minnesota on ultrathin superconducting films. After a postdoc at the University of Chicago, he moved to the Netherlands in 1989 to take up a position as senior researcher at the Delft Institute for Microelectronics and Submicrontechnology. He joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1991, directing the Chicago Materials Research Center from 2001–2006 and the James Franck Institute from 2007–2010.

Jaeger is the recipient of a David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholarship. He received the University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award and a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.