Katharina Krischer joined the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in April as a professor of technical physics. She was head of the spatiotemporal electrode dynamics group at the Berlin-based Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.
Last month, Robert W. Conn became a managing director of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital in La Jolla, California. He previously was with the University of California, San Diego, where he had served as the dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering since 1994.
In London this past May, the Royal Academy of Engineering presented its awards for 2002. Of the winners, two are engaged in physics-related work. Richard Friend received a Silver Medal, which is given to engineers younger than age 50 for their outstanding contributions to British engineering. The academy noted that Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and cofounder and chief scientist...
