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Bernd Michael Fischer
Dr Bernd Michael Fischer
PhD
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow

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Bernd Michael Fischer was born in Waldkirch, Germany, in 1973. In 1997/98 he won an ERASMUS bursary and studied for one year in the Universit´e Paris-sud 11, France, where he completed a Stage de Maitrise in biophysics and he received his Diplom Degree (with distinction) in 2001 from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He received his PhD degree (summa cum laude) in physics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2006, under Peter Uhd Jepsen and Hanspeter Helm in the area of T-ray spectroscopy of biomolecules.A copy of the thesis: "Broadband THz time-domain spectroscopy of biomolecules: a comprehensive study of the dielectric properties of biomaterials in the far infrared" can be downloaded here.
Dr Fischer joined the Adelaide T-ray Group, Australia, in 2006, and in 2007 he received an Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Postdoctoral (APD) Fellowship. Dr Fischer currently co-supervises several PhD students of the Adelaide T-ray gruop and is currently lecturing the Course Optical Communications Engineering at the University of Adelaide.