Prof. Andreas Ruediger is a full professor at INRS-EMT, nanoelectronics-nanophotonics and head of the laboratory of ferroelectric nanoelectronics (Canadian Foundation for Innovation). He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the department of physics, Universität Osnabrück, Germany (group Ortwin Schirmer) "Light-induced charge transfer processes and pyroelectric luminescence in Sn₂P₂S₆". He joned then the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (group of Jim Scott) as Alexander-von-Humboldt Research fellow and Research associate. From 2003 to 2018, he was tenured senior scientist and head of the Nanoarchitecture Laboratory at the Institute of Solid State Research (IFF) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany (group of Rainer Waser).
Prof Ruediger is also an Honorary Fellow of Munich University of Applied Sciences and Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He’s Associate editor of Functional Materials Letters, International Journal of Nanoscience, Journal of Crystallization and Crystal Growth.