Physics Diploma, 1981
Ph.D. (Dr. rer.nat.) 1984
Habilitation (Dr.rer.nat.habil.) 1991
Current Appointment
Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research,
Stuttgart (Germany), 1997
Professor, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany),
1997
Relevant Employment History:
1982-1983 Scientist at
Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble (France)
1984-1986 Postdoctoral
Scientist at Cornell University, Ithaca (New York, USA)
1986-1991 Senior Scientist
at University of Munich (Germany)
1992-1993 Visiting Professor
at University of Mainz (Germany)
1993-1997 Full Professor at
University of Wuppertal (Germany)
since 1997 Director at Max
Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart (Germany) and Full
Professor at
University
of Stuttgart
Scientific Expertise
- Collective phenomena and self-organisation processes at
surfaces and interfaces, in thin films, multilayers and
nanostructures
- Development of a microscopic understanding, how the presence of
interfaces and nanoconfinement geometries modify materials
properties and instigates low dimensional phenomena
- Novel diffraction and spectroscopy techniques using Synchrotron
radiation and neutrons
Current Projects
- Ordering and Disordering in Binary Alloys: Bulk, Surfaces and
Nanostructures
- Liquids in Confinement, Surface Melting Phenomena, Ice in
Confinement
- Complex Strain Structures at Interfaces and Thin Films
- Growth, Structure and Transport Properties of Organic
Films
- Oxidation Insitu Studies of Nanostructures under ambient
conditions
