Address: Department of Physics
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 46
67663 Kaiserslautern, German
Phone: +49 631 205 2385
Fax: +49 631 205 3903
Email: rethfeld[at]rptu.de
Date of Birth: June, 19th 1970 in Bremen, Germany
Family: two children, born in June 2001 and May 2004
| 1989 | Graduated from Waldschule Schwanewede, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 1989 - 1995 | Studies of Physics at the University of Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1995 | Diploma in Physics Diploma Thesis at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Braunschweig, Germany, in the group of Prof. Dr. G. Simon: Modellierung der katodennahen Plasmarandschicht einer Lichtbogenentladung (Modeling of the cathode fall region in an arc discharge plasma) |
| Support of the Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung for a research stay in Russia | |
| Visiting Young Scientist at the L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia Supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. I. Anisimov | |
| 1999 | Ph.D. in Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Braunschweig, Germany, in the group of Prof. Dr. G. Simon Thesis on: Mikroskopische Prozesse bei der Wechselwirkung von Festkörpern mit Laserpulsen im Subpikosekundenbereich (Microscopic processes in solids during ultrashort laser interaction) |
| 1999 - 2001 | PostDoc at the Institute for Laser and Plasma Physics, University of Essen, Germany, in the group of Prof. Dr. D. von der Linde |
| 2001 - 2005 | Lise Meitner-fellow of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 2006 - 2007 | Assistant at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) and the University of Darmstadt in the group of Prof. Dr. D. H. H. Hoffmann |
| 2007 - 2013 | Emmy Noether-fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Head of a group on Ultrafast Dynamics of Laser-Excited Solids at the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| 2009 | Guest professor at Laboratoire de Physico-Chimir de l'Etat Solide, University of Paris Sud, Orsay, France |
| 2012 | Offer of a professorship in Theoretical Physics at the University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2013 - 2018 | Heisenberg-Professorship in Applied Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| since 2018 | Professor of Applied Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, now University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany |