03/2012: elected Member of the ANKA International Users' Committee (until 04/2014)
"ANKA is the synchrotron facility at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The facility is operated by the Institute for Synchrotron Radiation and started user operation in 2003. As a large scale facility of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers ANKA is part of the national and European infrastructure offered to scientific and commercial users for performing excellent science and relevant technological development." [Reference-Link to ANKA]

12/2011-01/2012: teaching at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan

12/2011: elected Member of the KNMF User Committee (until 12/2013)
"KNMF is a high-tech platform for structuring and characterising a multitude of functional materials at the micro- and nanoscale" [Reference-Link to KNMF]

12/2011: review article (37 pages, 261 references) published at LPR: D. A. Schmidt, I. Kopf, E. Bründermann, A matter of scale: from far-field microscopy to near-field nanoscopy (all authors contributed equally to this review)

11/2011: Japan-Week@RUB 21.-25. November, proposal by Prof. Dr. N. H. Brockmeyer, J. Coenenberg (Competence Network for HIV/AIDS), supported by Dr. J. Pleines (LSI - Landesspracheninstitut in der Ruhr-Universität Bochum), and Dr. E. Bründermann (HGProfessor at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu Campus) with extentive support by the International Office.

04/2011: re-elected as Honorable Guest Professor of Shizuoka University: Press release (2009) (in German) English information

11/2010: "Family reunion" of Humboldtians and foundation of regional group Ruhrgebiet: Press release

02/2011: Winner of the WITec Paper Award 2010 - ... more information?

05/2010: Press release of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, 05 May 2010): Picturing infertility ...

... featured in Highlights in Chemical Biology and in Chemistry World and Press release of RUB (c) image by Royal Society of Chemistry (with permission)

04/2009: elected as Honorable Guest Professor of Shizuoka University: Press release (in German) English information

05/2008: Poster Prize: Topography and Chemistry of Nanowriting
	Press release of RUB (c) image by Erik Bründermann (EB)

05/2008: Winner of Innovation Price (Erfinderpreis) 2007 of RUB Press release of RUB

04/2008: FRONT-COVER Review Article (download cover, image made by E. Bründermann: DOI: 10.1039/B807901N)

E. Bründermann*, M. Havenith SNIM: Scanning near-field infrared microscopy Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. C: Phys. Chem., 104, 235 - 255 (2008). DOI: 10.1039/B703982B

06/2007: 1 Million Euro for new Nanoscope
	Press release of RUB (c) image by Erik Bründermann(EB)

08/2006: Secrets of sugar water uncovered with terahertz (THz) radiation - Press release of RUB
	Figure basis is a snap shot of a CHARMM data set (David Leitner) optically enhanced by E. Bründermann with freeware POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer, povray.org). (c) image by Erik Bründermann (EB)

01/2005: Infrared laser shows thirsty living cells - fast quantification of water in living cells - Press release of RUB and IDW

07/2004: FRONT-COVER-Article (download cover made by E. Bründermann) selected as "Hot Article" and featured in Chemical Science and Chemistry World News of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 1st cover and 1st infrared microscopy work of the department at RU Bochum,

E. Bründermann*, A. Bergner, F. Petrat, R. Schiwon, G. Wollny, I. Kopf, H. de Groot, M. Havenith Fast quantification of water in single living cells by near-infrared microscopy Analyst 129, 893 (2004). DOI: 10.1039/b408954p

03/2004: Book chapter on THz semiconductor lasers published!

Chapter 6: E. Bründermann, "Widely Tunable Far Infrared Hot Hole Semiconductor Lasers", 279 - 350 (2004), ISBN: 0-471-39200-6 in Long-wavelength Infrared Semiconductor Lasers.

01/2000: Patent disclosed, based on provisional application from April 23, 1996 while affiliated at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and DLR Berlin: U.S. Patent 6,011,810 (2000), E. E. Haller, E. Bründermann.