Karin Jacobs

Karin Jacobs is a German physicist. She is a professor at the Saarland University.

Life

Jacobs studied physics at the University of Konstanz and received her doctorate in 1997 from the very same university.[1] Since 2003, she is a university professor at the Saarland University. Since 2004, she is a fellow of the Leibniz Institute for New Materials.[1]

Research

Jacobs' research focuses on micro-fluidics, (bio-) adhesion, and functional materials.[2]

Awards

Jabobs is a member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur.[1] She gave the Beller Lecture of the American Physical Society in 2015.[1] Since 2016, she is a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities.[3]

gollark: With companies or people or whatever, you can usually just go to a different one. You *can't* do that for governments.
gollark: They do not, at least, have legally binding power and the whole "monopoly on violence" thing going on.
gollark: If it's really easy to convert some new opinion into binding law, then people will do it lots and you get badness.
gollark: And I don't trust the government much either, because they tend to grow excessively and/or do stupid/powergrabby things.
gollark: I don't really trust "the aggregated opinion of the majority" to be remotely sensible.

References
  1. "Prof. Dr. Karin Jacobs : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz". www.adwmainz.de. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
  2. "AG Jacobs". jacobs.physik.uni-saarland.de. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
  3. "Professorin Karin Jacobs ist neues Mitglied des Wissenschaftsrates". www.uni-saarland.de (in German). 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2018-12-30.


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