Staff

Field of research:

• Material processing:
  • Solid state synthesis of functional ceramics
  • Hydrothermal synthesis of nanomaterials
• Advanced TEM characterization and method developments:
  • Structural and chemical characterization of materials and correlation to properties at high spatial resolution
  • Quantitative atomic-scale studies of crystal structure, chemistry and bonding of interfaces and nanostructures
  • Quantitative atomic resolution HRTEM and HAADF/ABF/BF STEM image analysis
  • Quantitative EELS analysis
• In situ transmission electron microscopy:
  • In situ heating and cooling TEM experiments
  • In situ studies of structural phase transitions

Field of research:

• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• Liquid TEM
• Focused ion beam (FIB) TEM lamella preparation
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
• Meteoritics

Field of research:

• Functional ceramics with perovskite structure, thermoelectrics
• 1-D oxide nanostructures
• Solar cells
• Photocatalytic (micro)reactors
• Electron microscopy (SEM, EPMA, STEM/TEM, AEM, HR HAADF-STEM)

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Field of research:

• Electrocemical sensors for chemical species in food and enviroment based on metalic nanostructures

Field of research:

• Non-crystalline alloys and compounds: metallic glasses, intermetallics and complex metallic alloys, quasicrystals.
• Crystal structure and local order; formation and stability of complex compounds; properties of complex metallic compounds and quasicrystals: electronic structure, heat transport, solid-solid adhesion,
  wetting, friction; applications of quasicrystals & complex intermetallics.

Field of interests:

• Projects & Finances

Field of research:

• Development of Spark Plasma Sintered rare earth magnets (Nd-Fe-B & SmCo)
• HDDR processing, microwave sintering and high energy reactive milling
• Anisotropic recycled, bonded and nanocomposite permanent RE magnets
• Advanced characterization (SEM, HRTEM, In-Situ, HAADF, EELS, SAED, AFM) & magnetic testing (Permeameter, VSM, MFM)

Field of research:

• Exchange-coupled two-phase magnetic materials (preparation and characterization)
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• Spark plasma sintering (SPS)
• Promotion of science

Field of research:

• Arc-melting and melt-spinning of metals and alloys
• PECS sintering of alloys and composites
• Magnetic measurements
• Metal-bonded magnets
• Complex metallic alloys

Field of research:

• W-based composites for fusion application
• Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)
• Mechanical properties, XRD
• Conductor of the JSI choir Vox Scientiae

Field of research:

• Ab-initio electronic structure calculations, based on the density functional theory, focused on magnetic properties of solids, namely hyperfine parameters, nonlinear magnetoelastic effects, X-ray magnetic dichroism (XMCD) spectra…

Field of research:

• Electrochemical study and deposition of magnetic thin films, nanowires and nanotubes based on Fe-Pd and Co-Pt system
• Multifunctional nanomaterials based on magnetic (FePt, Fe3O4) and optically active components (Au) for bioapplications such as magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic hyperthermia, photo-thermal and sensing
• Formation of »smart nanocarriers« made of SiO2, biopolymers (chitosan, gelatine, etc.) and thermo-responsive liposomes

Field of research:

• Photocatalysis
• Anodic oxidation
• SEM
• Electropolishing

Field of research:

• Biomaterials
• Materials for fusion applications
• Composites
• Colloidal processing
• Electrophoretic deposition
• Nanotoxicology
• Promotion of science

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Field of research:

• Hard magnetic materials
• Magnetocaloric materials
• Magnetic measurements
• Sample preparation
• Materials characterisation

Field of research:

• Atomic-level studies of polytypic phase transitions, twinning, epitaxy, nucleation of planar faults; atomic structure & chemistry of twin boundaries, inversion boundaries, antiphase boundaries, low-angle tilt grain boundaries; special grain boundaries and their relation to exaggerated and anisotropic crystal growth; microstructure development.

Field of research:

• Processing of rare-earth permanent magnets

Field of research:

• Topic: Structural and spectroscopic investigations of epitaxy and tropochemical twin boundaries in cassiterite (SnO₂)
• Methods: X-ray diffractometry, electron microscopy (SEM, TEM, EDS, HRTEM, STEM), image simulations (multislice, Bloch-wave), structure modelling and refinement (DFT, MD)
• Experimental: reproduction of twinning in SnO₂, solvothermal synthesis, flux growth, solid-state synthesis.

Field of research:

• Electrochemical sensors for chemical species in food and enviroment based on metallic nanowires, nanotubes and nanoparticles

Field of research:

• Synthesis and characterization of perovskite nanostructures
• Electrophoretic deposition (EPD)
• Synthesis of nanoporous alumina templates
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and microanalysis (EDS)
• Conventional (CTEM) and analitical (AEM) transmission electron microscopy
• Promotion of science