Christian Spielmann

Christian Spielmann is a German physicist and a professor at the University of Jena, where he is director of the Institute for Optics and Quantum Electronics. According to Google Scholar, his works were cited more than 13,000 times, giving him an h-index of 48.

Education and career
Spielmann obtained his Ph.D. in 1989 at the Vienna University of Technology where he also habilitated in 1999. In 2002 he became professor of experimental physics at the University of Würzburg, before moving to Jena in 2008. In 1998, Spielman received the Fritz-Kohlrausch-Physik Award (for achievements in experimental physics by junior scientists) from the Austrian Physical Society and in 2010 the Thuringian Research Award.