Jamal Berakdar is an outstanding young researcher who has accomplished in less than ten years remarkable contributions to the field. He is well acknowledged by the scientific community.

PhD-thesis at University of Freiburg (Prof. Klar, 1994), Humboldt- and Research fellow at Atomic & Molecular Physics Laboratories, Australian National University; since 1998 researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany.