Prof. Alfred Forchel appeared as a guest at the Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar at WUST. He delivered a lecture entitled “Semiconductor nanophotonics - opportunities and challenges for science and applications"

Professor Alfred Forchel is a world-famous physicist dealing with photonics, optoelectronics, quantum physics, and nanotechnology. He graduated from the University of Stuttgart, where he received his doctorate in 1983 and habilitation in 1988. In 1990, he became a professor at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, where he headed the Department of Technical Physics. There he created a modern laboratory to research the technology of nanostructures and semiconductor devices.

Since 2009, Professor Forchel has been the President of the University of Würzburg. He has conducted pioneering research into quantum electrodynamics in nanostructures on the level of interactions between a single electron and a single photon.

A. Forchel's research work has resulted in over 1,400 publications quoted more than 25 thousand times (H-index - 79). Among these works, there are many published in periodicals of the highest rank, such as Science and Nature.