Gerhard Abstreiter is a German physicist and professor of physics at Technical University of Munich (TUM), currently holding the university's highest honor, the Emeritus of Excellence and also being a Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.
From 1987 to 2015, he was a full professor at TUM and also, in 2010 and 2011, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Tokyo.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and acatech.