Organization
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Oliver Benson since 2001 has been professor of nano-optics at the Institute of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin. He has studied physics at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. There and at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching he received his doctorate. This was followed by postdoctoral stations at Stanford University and at the University of Konstanz. He was an Emmy Noether junior research group leader and received a Lynen postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.