Jan Rost
Jan M. Rost is a German theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden heading the research department . He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after nomination by the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics in 2007, for seminal investigations of correlated doubly excited states, threshold fragmentation in few-body Coulombic systems and small clusters, pendular states of linear molecules, and for elucidating the role of correlation and relaxation in ultracold plasmas and Rydberg gases.
His research interests reach from ultracold to ultrafast dynamics in finite systems including Rydberg excitation and ionization. Former group leaders of his department are among others , , , , and .
He was Editor in Chief of Journal of Physics B, chairman of the , chair of the of the Max Planck Society and is presently and member of the Wissenschaftsrat advising German Science politics.
