Markolf Niemz

Markolf H. Niemz (* 1964 in Hofheim am Taunus) is a German biophysicist.

Live and act

Markolf Niemz studied physics at Heidelberg University (diploma) and then Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (Master of Science). It was established in 1992 with a thesis on the construction of a pulse compressed Nd: YLF laser to study the plasma-induced ablation of tissue to Dr. rer. nat. PhD and habilitation then in physics in Heidelberg.

He worked as Head of Optical Spectroscopy at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM) in Freiburg from 1999 onwards.

2000 he was appointed to the Chair of Medical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering at the Heidelberg University, settled as a professor at the Medical Faculty of Mannheim, Mannheim University Hospital. Niemz has since director of Mannheim Biomedical Engineering Laboratories (MABEL), a facility of the University of Heidelberg and the University of Mannheim, and research in the fields of laser medicine and patient monitoring.

Niemz also committed to a new branch of mortality research, the so-called near-death research, apart. With his scientific novel "Lucy with c" in 2005 he was a wide audience. The work, which has now sold more than 28,000 times, made it the first German nonfiction self-published on the Gong-seller list. From the author's fee his Lucy trilogy Niemz founded the "Foundation Lucy's children", which works to ensure that children receive from the poorest countries in the world access to knowledge and love.

Awards

• Karl Freudenberg Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1995 for his work on "laser-tissue interactions."
• Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in 1995 with a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Publications

• Laser-Tissue Interactions: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, Berlin, 1998; 3. edition 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-72191-8.
• Lucy with c: speed of light into the afterlife. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3739-1.
• Lucy in the light: the afterlife on the track. Droemer / Knaur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-27420-0.
• Lucy's Legacy: The key to eternity. Droemer / Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-27498-9.
• Am I, when I am no more? A physicist decrypted eternity. Cross, Freiburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-451-61046-2.
• Meaning: A physicist linked knowledge with love. Cross, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-61181-0.
• Lose yourself itself and win it all: A physicist reaching for the stars. Cross, Freiburg 2015, ISBN 978-3451613227.