Marius Grundmann

Grundmann attended primary school in Berlin-Schmargendorf from 1970 to 1974. He then attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, where he obtained his Abitur (German university entrance qualification) in 1982.^[2] In 1983, he began studying physics at the Technical University of Berlin. He graduated in 1988 with a diploma thesis entitled Pseudomorphic Quantum Wells and Excitonic Effects, receiving the overall grade of sehr gut ("very good").^[2] In 1984, he was awarded a scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).^[2] From 1988 to 1991, he pursued doctoral studies at the Technical University of Berlin under the supervision of Dieter Bimberg. He completed his doctorate with a dissertation on Heteroepitaxy of InP on Si, graduating summa cum laude.^[2] Following research appointments in the United States, Grundmann held a postdoctoral habilitation fellowship funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 1992 to 1994.^[2] From 1994 to 2000, he worked as a senior research engineer at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the Technical University of Berlin. He completed his habilitation in 1995 and was granted the venia legendi in 1996.^[2]

From 2000 to 2004, Grundmann was funded through the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG).^[3] In the same year, he was appointed professor at Leipzig University.^[2] Since 2002, he has been director of the Institute of Experimental Physics II at Leipzig University.^[2] In 2021, he co-founded SAXON Q, a Leipzig-based quantum computing company developing room-temperature quantum computers based on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond.^[4] From 2022 to 2025, he served as dean of the Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences at Leipzig University.^[2]

• The Physics of Semiconductors: An Introduction Including Nanophysics and Applications (Graduate Texts in Physics). Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-51568-3. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51569-0.
• Marius Grundmann (ed.), Nano-Optoelectronics (NanoScience and Technology). Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, 2002. ISBN 3-642-62807-9. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-56149-8.

• 1998 – Gerhard Hess Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG).^[2]
• 1998 – Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, awarded jointly by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).^[2]
• 2011 – Leipzig Science Prize of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[5]
• 2020 – Rudolf Jaeckel Prize of the German Vacuum Society (DVG).^[6]