Portrait of Professor Nielsch
Prof. Kornelius Nielsch has held the Chair of Metallic Materials and Metal Physics and Director of the Institute of Metallic Materials within the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden since April 2015. He was born in Hamburg in 1973.
Without solid state physics and materials science, solar cells, hard disks, smartphones and electronic components in cars would be inconceivable.
Being a professor is a profession that always presents new challenges, because research is constantly changing with the discovery of new physical phenomena and the development of new technical fields of application. It would be ideal if, as a professor, I could motivate as many students as possible to join me on this exciting journey into research.
Students should be interested in issues at the interfaces between the individual disciplines, as this is where the most rapid scientific developments are currently taking place. They can also critically examine the practices of the various disciplines and develop their own points of view.
In the future, new physical effects will be harnessed in materials science and solid-state physics, particularly for energy conversion and energy storage. The choice of materials for these applications will be made with a more careful eye on resources and therefore more sustainably.
If I could study again, I would like to enrol on the new nanosciences degree program I designed at the University of Hamburg, because the advantages of this course lie in the intersection between materials science, physical chemistry and solid state physics.
Excellence ... means stronger networking and internationalization of research, a greater willingness to innovate in new research projects and, last but not least, a small boost for the social visibility of science...