Prof. Dr. Michael Kuehne 

 

He studied physics at the University of Hanover from 1968 and received his masters degree in 1973. 1973 and 1974 he was with the Harvard College Observatory, USA. From 1974 he worked at the "Institute for Plasmaphysics" of the University of Hanover where he received his PhD in 1977. In 1977 he joined the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) the German National Metrology Institute to become Head of the section "Vacuum-UV-Radiation-Metrology" in 1986. He moved to the field of thermometry in 1991 and became Head of the department "Temperature and Heat". In 2003 he joined the presidential board of PTB and is now responsible at PTB for "Metrology for Industry" and for "International Relations". Since 1996 he is also a professor at the Physics Faculty of the University of Hanover. Since 2002 he is the EUROMET Chairman of the TC "Interdisciplinary Metrology". In 2005 he was elected by EUROMET to serve as Chairman from 2006 to 2008.