Hartmut Löwen (born May 23, 1963, in Hamm) is a German physicist working in the field of statistical mechanics and soft matter physics.
Hartmut Löwen studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the Technical University of Dortmund from 1982, where he graduated in physics in 1986 and obtained his doctorate in 1987 on phase transitions in Polaron systems with Bernd Gerlach.
Löwen then worked as a Post-Doc at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1993 with Herbert Wagner.
In 1990/91 he was at the École normale supérieure de Lyon with Jean-Pierre Hansen.
[5] In 1994, he received a Heisenberg grant and the Gerhard Hess Prize[6] of the German Research Foundation (DFG).