Michael Allan Physics and Chemistry with Free Electrons

Curriculum vitae:

• 1949 born in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic)
• 1976 Dr. phil II University of Basel (supervisor Professor John P. Maier)
• 1977-80 Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, USA
• 1980 Maitre assistant, University of Fribourg
  (Institut de chimie physique, director Professor Edwin Haselbach)
• 1989 Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department, University of Fribourg
• 2016, April: retired

mobile phone: +41 77 401 05 03
E-Mail: michael.allan@unifr.ch

I am very priviledged in a number of ways. I was alloved to devote myself to my hobby — look at encounters of free electrons with atoms, molecules, and finally also with liquids — all my life!

And to enjoy academic life, particularly being with students, teaching and guiding them in research. And I was even paid for all of it! (I hereby express my gratitude to the tax-paying citizens of the Canton of Fribourg.)

I have a family with successful children and with grandchildren who go singing through life. I enjoy reasonable health. I never lived through a war (my father did, through two, my mother through one).