Ekkehard Peik

PTB – the National Metrology Institute in Germany, Braunschweig

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Ekkehard Peik is head of the department Time and Frequency at PTB, Germany’s National Metrology Laboratory, since 2007. Prior to joining PTB in 2001, he worked for Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and has been a Marie-Curie-Fellow for a postdoctoral stay at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. He obtained the diploma degree in 1988 and the PhD in 1993, both from LMU Munich. His scientific interests are: quantum optics and laser spectroscopy, atomic and nuclear physics, laser cooling and trapping, metrology of time and frequency with atomic clocks, and tests of fundamental principles with clocks.

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