DRESDEN Fellows 2018
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School of Civil and Enviromental Engineering
DRESDEN Senior Fellowship
3 - 15 December 2018
Guest at the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences
Prof. Lovelock is one of the collaboration partners of the DFG-funded project “MARZIPAN - Adopting mangrove vegetation zonation patterns to gain information on subsurface aquifer structures and advance below-ground plant competition concepts in individual-based modelling”, which is being carried out jointly with Prof. Marc Walther (TU Dresden /UFZ Halle-Leipzig).
During her stay, Prof. Lovelock, together with Dr. Jiang from Nanjing Forestry University (China), also a DRESDEN Fellow and visiting TU Dresden at the same time, was assisting in preparing and carrying out the 3rd International Workshop of Mangrove Modelling. This workshop took place from 3 to 15 December 2018 at the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences.
In addition, Prof. Lovelock held a lecture as part of the course “FOMF23 Ecological Modelling”, which was being offered during the winter semester 2018/19 by the Chair of Forest Biometrics and Forest Systems Analysis.
DRESDEN Senior Fellowship
3 - 15 December 2018
Guest at the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences
Dr. Jiang is a collaboration partner of the DFG-funded project “MARZIPAN - Adopting mangrove vegetation zonation patterns to gain information on subsurface aquifer structures and advance below-ground plant competition concepts in individual-based modelling”, which is being carried out jointly with Prof. Marc Walther (TU Dresden /UFZ Halle-Leipzig).
During his stay, Dr. Jiang together with Prof. Catherine Ellen Lovelock from The University of Queensland (Australia), also a DRESDEN Fellow and visiting TU Dresden at the same time, was assisting in preparing and carrying out the 3rd International Workshop of Mangrove Modelling. This workshop took place from 3 to 15 December 2018 at the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences.
In addition, Dr. Jiang gave a lecture as part of the course “FOMF23 Ecological Modelling”, which was being offered during the winter semester 2018/19 by the Chair of Forest Biometrics and Forest Systems Analysis.
DRESDEN Junior Fellows
Dr. Prokop: 14 October – 11 November 2018
Dr. Rehak: 4 November – 2 December 2018
Guests at the Chair of Combustion EnginesDresden Institute of Automobile Engineering "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
Dr. Aleš Prokop and Dr. Kamil Rehak are research assistants at the Institute of Automotive Engineering at Brno University of Technology. Their expertise is in the field of mechanical problems in powertrains, an area which complements the profile of the Chair that is hosting them. The two junior researchers spent two consecutive research stays at TU Dresden, intended to intensify the collaboration between the two universities and to design joint projects in the field of combustion engines and drive systems.
DRESDEN Junior Fellow
5-26 August 2018
Guest at the Chair of Pavement Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Prof. Dawei Wang has been a professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China since September 2017. However, he has completed much of his academic career to date in Germany, doing both his doctorate and his habilitation at RWTH Aachen University. For many years now, he has been involved in a very productive research collaboration with the Chair of Pavement Engineering.
The goal of his stay in terms of his specialist field was to intensify co-operation in joint areas of expertise, with the main focus being on the dimensioning of road surface structures and predicting their behaviour. To this end, modelling of the behaviour of road building materials and structures under practical (cyclical) traffic loads and optimising innovative road building materials are of great significance.
Prof. Wang also contributed to writing joint technical papers for acknowledged specialist journals and to preparing contributions for internationally renowned conferences, e.g. the Transport Research Arena (TRA) meeting in Europe and the Transport Research Board (TRB) meeting in the USA. Furthermore, there was exchange of technical expertise with other institutes on a regular basis, in particular with the Institute of Structural Analysis at TU Dresden.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
February – June 2018
From February to June 2018, Prof. Yulia Griber from Smolensk State University in Russia was a visiting Senior Fellow at the Chair of Spatial Design of the Faculty of Architecture. She is Professor of Cultural Management and Director of the Color Lab, which deals with the role of colour from a sociological and urban perspective.
At TU Dresden, she was collaborating in the “Intensivwochen Farbe” - a programme for students of architecture, landscape architecture and vocational education that is unique in Europe. The programme took place from 12 February to 2 March 2018, and Prof. Griber contributed her expertise in urban sociology and colour in the city. Together with her host Prof. Ralf Weber, she also prepared joint research projects and the 12th “Dresdner Farbenforum 2019”, which involved an exhibition at the Albertinum. Here, Prof. Griber can support the preparations in particular with her historical knowledge and carrying out research in the original Russian language.
School of Engineering Sciences
Dresden Senior Fellowship
15 September 2018 - 31 August 2019
Guest at the Chair of Process Control SystemsFaculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seyed Ali Akbar Safavi is Professor of Systems and Control Engineering at the Department of Power and Control Engineering at Shiraz University, and was Vice-Chancellor for Planning and Development. His research interests are model predictive control, wavelets, neural networks, system identification, networked based control, and information technology.
The goal of Prof. Ali Akbar Safavi’s stay was to establish and expand joint research projects in the subject area of “New design and monitoring concepts for Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories”, which was meant to strengthen the partnership between TU Dresden and Shiraz University. Furthermore, as Vice-President of the E-Learning Association of Iran (YADA), he contributed his expertise in the field of e-learning at TU Dresden.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
3 September - 20 November 2018
Guest of Prof. Dr. Cornelia Breitkopf Institute of Power Engineering Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Dr. Ian Bell is a scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His research interests include computational routines and tools for the development and application of thermodynamic mixture models. At Nist, Dr. Bell is involved in the development of NIST REFPROP, the world’s leading substance database, the development and optimisation of algorithms for calculating phase equilibria of mixtures, and the development of equations of state for pure substances and substance mixtures by means of new adaptation strategies based on parallelisation.
Dr. Bell’s stay was intended to intensify the existing successful collaboration between the two institutions, to initiate joint research projects and to co-operate in preparing future joint project proposals.
Furthermore, Dr. Bell presented his work at NIST in a series of public seminars and held a guest lecture in Prof. Breitkopf’s course Technical Thermodynamics - Energy Teaching.
Contact
Dr. Ian Bell - National Institute of Standards and Technology
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
2-16 September 2018
Guest of Prof. Gianaurelio Cuniberti Chair of Materials Science and NanotechnologyFaculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Dr. Karen Michaeli is a young scientist in the Condensed Matter Department (CMD) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, one of the leading basic research scientific institutions in Israel as well as worldwide. She studied Physics and received her BSc from Tel-Aviv University and her MSc and PhD degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the guidance of Prof. Alexander Finkel'stein. She has been working mostly in the area of Condensed Matter Physics, and recently started to get interested in the problem of spin-selective transport in helical molecules, a topic discovered few years ago by Prof. Ron Naaman (also working at the Weizmann Institute) and Prof. Helmut Zacharias (University of Münster, Germany).
The focus of the research activities of Dr. Michaeli during her visit was devoted to spintronic effects in chiral molecules, especially the issue of spinselective transport in molecules displaying chiral symmetry (Chirality-induced spin selectivity, CISS).
During her stay, Dr. Michaeli also gave a seminar focusing on her recent work on the CISS effect as weil as on the current experimental situation. This served to introduce interested scientists in Dresden to this new field. The talk took place in the framework of the nanoSeminar (organized at the chair of Prof. G. Cuniberti) and was open to students from Diploma and Master Courses covering Materials Science, Nanoelectronics, Organic and Molecular Electronics and Physics, as weil as to Erasmus Mundus students.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1 September 2018 - 30 June 2019
Guest at the Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology
Prof. Farshad Farshchi Tabrizi is a specialist in the fields of chemical process engineering and energy process engineering, and works as Associate Professor at the School of Chemical, Petroleum and Gas Engineering at Shiraz University. He is particularly interested in pyrolysis – the gasification and incineration of residual materials – which plays a major role in the treatment of waste and residual materials with a view to recovering recyclable materials, energetic use and environmentally compatible disposal.
Until now, synthetic materials have posed a considerable recycling problem because of the added flame retardants, in particular bromine compounds. As a result of legal requirements, these materials are prohibited from being recycled and are also problematic for energetic use due to contamination or excessively high emissions and corrosion. Bromine is not yet being recovered for the purposes of a recycling economy.
During his research stay, Prof. Farshchi Tabrizi contributed to a project at the Chair of Energy Process Engineering that was aimed at developing the basic principles of a process for the recovery of bromine with the simultaneous energetic use of brominated old plastics. The project was developed jointly by TU Dresden and the Chair of Technical Chemistry at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, and was supported by the Development Bank of Saxony under its funding programme for innovative energy technology. Prof. Farshchi Tabrizi’s research visit also served to intensify scientific collaboration with Shiraz University.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1 August 2018 - 31 January 2019
Guest of Prof. Kerstin Eckert at the Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental TechnologyFaculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Prof. Aliyar Javadi has been a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tehran since 2015. The intention of Prof. Aliyar Javadi’s visit was to establish a long-term research co-operation between the Institute of Process Engineering and Environmental Technology at TU Dresden and the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tehran. Both institutes are researching properties of fluid interfaces and interface phenomena (transport interfacial phenomena at liquid interfaces, dynamic surface phenomena, fluid solid interaction and multiphase systems).
Prof. Aliyar Javadi completed his PhD in chemical engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran in 2007 and then did postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1-10 July 2018
Guest of Chair of Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Richard Stanley Williams, Senior Vice President at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Palo Alto, CA (USA), is an American physicist has won multiple awards in the field of nanotechnology. The aim of his stay was to develop novel computer and memory structures for future IT systems. The flood of data associated with digitalisation requires the development of novel networked sensor-computer systems, i.e. nanosystems which process data directly, doing away with the need to access external computers. Certain nanoelectronic components, so-called memristors, play an important role in achieving this.
At TU Dresden, Dr. Williams conducted research together with Prof. Leon Chua from the University of Berkeley (USA), who was also a DRESDEN Senior Fellow at the Chair of Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Chua coined the term “Memristor” in 1971 and is still a leading researcher in this field today.
The Chua Memristor Center was founded in Dresden in 2016. This research network in the field of memristors is composed of scientists from computer science, electrical engineering, physics and chemistry. Prof. Chua and Dr. Williams are members of the advisory board.
Further information about Dr. Williams:
Hewlett Packard Labs – About us
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
8-20 July 2018
Prof. Mujica was a guest at the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (Prof. G. Cuniberti). The intention of the visit was to deepen existing collaborations, especially in the field of spin transport in helical molecules, and to complete work already commenced on three joint publications.
Vladimiro Mujica has been a professor at the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University since 2009, and is considered one of the leading scientists worldwide in molecular electronics. In recent years, he has already spent extended research periods at Northwestern University in Chicago, in São Paulo, Brazil, and San Sebastián in Spain.
After studying in his home country of Venezuela, he received his doctorate in quantum chemistry in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1985. He then worked as a postdoc in Tel Aviv, Israel.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1 April - 30 September 2018
As a participant in the DRESDEN Fellow Programme, Prof. Leon O. Chua strengthened the long-standing co-operation with TU Dresden at the Chair of Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering. Chua is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley. He is an internationally renowned pioneer in the fields of non-linear circuits, cellular neuronal networks and chaos.
In 1971, Leon Chua coined the term “Memristor” and is still a leading expert in this field today. In 2016, the Chua Memristor Center - a network of computer scientists, electrical engineers, physicists and chemists researching in the field of memristors - was founded in Dresden. Chua is a member of its advisory board. In summer 2018, Dr. Stanley Williams (HP Labs in Palo Alto, USA), also a member of the advisory board, undertook research in Dresden alongside Prof. Chua. Together with Prof. Ronald Tetzlaff, the two American visiting scientists intended to develop research proposals, work on publications and on networking with industrial partners and other research institutions in Saxony, supervise doctoral students and take their part in teaching.
Prof. Chua has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates (including from TU Dresden) for his research, and is a recipient of the award for the top 15 cited authors in engineering.
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
DRESDEN Junior Fellow
15 September - 28 February 2019
Guest of Prof. Roswitha Böhm Chair of French Literature and Cultural Studies - Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie Institute of Romance Studies Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
Cécile Wajsbrot is a French literary specialist, translator and author who has been awarded several prizes: in 2014, she received the “Eugen-Helmlé-Übersetzerpreis” and in 2016, the “Prix de l'Académie de Berlin”. Since 2017, she has been a member of the “Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung”.
The author, who has Polish-Jewish roots, lives in both Paris and Berlin, and is therefore regarded as a model representative of “ZwischenWeltenSchreiben” (Writing-between-Worlds – Ette, 2005). This forms the basis of her unique place within contemporary French literature, which not only questions and records the immediate present like a seismograph, but is also characterised by historical awareness and an interest in cultural mediation processes.
There have already been working ties with TU Dresden since winter semester 2016/17, when Ms. Wajsbrot was invited as guest of honour to the international and interdisciplinary conference “Migration and Media”. The systematised collaboration with Ms. Wajsbrot is of particular importance to the newly founded interdisciplinary “Centrum France | Francophonie” (CFF). During her stay, public readings and discussion events, including with DRESDEN-concept partners, took place.
In collaboration with the Center for Integration Research, she also offered a research-oriented seminar for students and junior academics that dealt with the concept and the (literary) figure of the stranger from a comparative perspective. In view of the increase in social complexity with its often unmarked intertwining of discourse between areas of knowledge and understanding, the analysis of the social construction and perception of strangeness in situations of conflict and upheaval contributes to a better understanding of our contemporary societies.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1 September - 31 December 2018
Guest of Dr. Julia Prager Institute of German Studies Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
Under the DRESDEN Fellowship programme, Dr. Peter Clar was collaborating with Dr. Julia Prager, postdoctoral fellow of the Open Topic Postdoc Positions (OTTP) programme for junior researchers at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature. He developed a research project on the narrative aspect of assembling and thus contributed to furthering the integration of Dr. Prager’s network project “Assembling – political, historical and media-aesthetic dimensions of resistive orders”.
Dr. Clar is an independent researcher (who lectures at the universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt), and a writer. He is a co-founder of the network Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse (aka) at the University of Vienna, in which renowned scholars and junior researchers from Austria and Germany collaborate.
Contact
Peter Clar - Website
DRESDEN Junior Fellow
1 June - 31 October 2018
Guest of Prof. Dennis Pausch at the Institute of Classical Philology, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
Dr. Virginia Fabrizi graduated in Classics at the University of Pavia (Italy) and in 2012, completed her PhD with a thesis on Ennius’s Annales at the University of Udine. During her doctorate, she did a six-month research stay in Cambridge and then went on to spend a considerable part of her postdoctoral phase so far as a research assistant at renowned research centres in Berlin (Topoi Cluster of Excellence) and Munich (Graduate School Distant Worlds). Her research project at Topoi was concerned with the representation of space in Livy’s “Ab urbe condita libri”, with a special focus on space outside the city of Rome and on the Third Decade (Books 21-30).
During her stay at TU Dresden, Dr. Virginia Fabrizi intended to work on a monograph in English on the narrative techniques and spatial concepts of the Roman historian Livius.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1 May - 30 June 2018 and 1 November - 31 December 2018
Guest of the the Institute of Romance Studies, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies
Prof. Massimo Zaggia’s research stay was closely related to the DFG collaboration project “Digitalisation and in-depth indexing of Italian manuscripts from the collection of the Saxon State and University Library - SLUB", run by the SLUB and the Institute of Romance Studies.
Prof. Zaggia researches and teaches as a paleographer and codicologist in an interdisciplinary and international context and is an expert in Italian manuscripts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The analysis of the Italian manuscript corpus represents a scientific challenge for DRESDEN-concept, which could be met by working closely with Prof. Zaggia. The results of the project were introduced to the general public in the SLUB.
Involving Prof. Zaggia in research and teaching was of immense value for consolidating the Italian-German network in line with the “New Philology”. During Massimo Zaggia’s research stay, various workshops took place on the “Archaeology of the Manuscript”,"Codicology and Palaeography” and on the “Critical Edition”. In the course of these workshops, (post) doctoral candidates from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences had the opportunity to deepen their knowledge at the SLUB.
Further information about Prof. Zaggia
Università Degli Studi di Bergamo
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
15 April - 31 July 2018
Guest at the Institute of Protestant Theology, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Born in Cameroon, David Trobisch now lives in Germany and the USA. He is an internationally renowned New Testament scholar with special interests in the fields of textual criticism, the canon and fictionality research. Trobisch is also the co-editor of the Novum Testamentum Graece, the authoritative critical edition of the New Testament, and is considered one of the leading experts on New Testament manuscripts. He is the director of the collection of the Museum of the Bible, which has opened recently in Washington, D.C.
David Trobisch is no stranger to Protestant Theology at TU Dresden. His model edition of the New Testament in the 2nd century (Die Endredaktion des Neuen Testaments, 1996) has been and remains the inspiration for research in the field of Biblical Theology at the Institute. Particularly noteworthy are Prof. Klinghardt's model related to the origins of the New Testament Gospels (Das älteste Evangelium und die Entstehung der kanonischen Evangelien, 2015) and the research project “Der Text der Erstausgabe des Neuen Testaments” (TENT), which examines the pre-New Testament form of the Letters of Paul.
David Trobisch's fellowship focused on research. As a consultant, he contributed his expertise to the current projects at the Chair of Biblical Theology. In addition, he was involved in work being done to set up long-term collaboration models with TU Dresden and the SLUB.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
1 April - 30 September 2018
Guest at the Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG)
Prof. Carlos Ruta is the Director of the Center for Hermeneutics at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM) in Buenos Aires, where he was the Rector until 2017. He is an internationally renowned expert on mediaeval mysticism and hermeneutics. Since 2014, Prof. Ruta and Prof. Dr. Gert Melville from TU Dresden’s Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders (FOVOG) have published a scientific series of – to date – four volumes entitled “Challenges of Life” with De Gruyter (Berlin/Boston); a fifth volume is currently in preparation.
As a DRESDEN Fellow at FOVOG, Prof. Ruta continued the scientific collaboration between the two universities and expand on current aspects of basic research in cultural anthropology, for example, regarding encounters with foreign cultures during the late Middle Ages and the early modern era. In doing so, his work focused on analyses of practical hermeneutics. An interdisciplinary workshop on the subject, entitled “Hermeneutische Manipulationen. Ein vormodernes und allgegenwärtiges Problem” (Hermeneutic Manipulations. A pre-modern and omnipresent issue), took place in Dresden on 16-17 July 2018.
School of Medicine
Dresden Senior Fellowship
18 November - 31 December 2018
Guest at the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical Clinic I of the Dresden University Hospital
During his six-week research stay, Prof. Juan Francisco Miquel was working together with Prof. Hampe’s research group, on the one hand, to evaluate a genome-wide association study on cholesterol gallstone disease. On the other, he further investigated the genetic risk factors for gallbladder cancer. His stay was also used to conclude collaboration agreements for exchanges involving students and doctoral candidates.
Prof. Miquel has been Full Professor of Gastroenterology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile since 2007. He was a Humboldt Fellow at the LMU, and, from 2008 to 2014, Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Chile. The collaboration with Prof. Hampe’s research group has existed since 2006, and has already led to several joint publications in Nature Genetics, Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
DRESDEN Junior Fellow
16-29 September 2018
Guest at Dr. Roman Rodionov, Angiology Research Lab (part of the University Center for Vascular Medicine), University Clinic “Carl Gustav Carus"
Dr. Benjamin Lewis is the Director of First-Year studies for the Discipline of Medicine and the FUSA Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. As a medical researcher his interests are focused on developing new medicines and innovative methods of drug therapy, including a gene directed prodrug therapy model for targeted cancer treatment. He completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor John Miners (ISI Citation Laureate) and was subsequently awarded a Flinders University Research Fellowship in 2011.
Flinders University and the Technische Universität Dresden have been actively collaborating for many years as parts of the German-Australian Institute of Translational Medicine (GAITM). Both universities are also members of the International Network on Diabetes and Depression. The Medical Clinic III at the TU Dresden is enthusiastically working on expanding and strengthening the partnership between the TU Dresden and Flinders University focusing on the development of novel therapeutic approaches for cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Contacts
Dr Ben Lewis - Flinders University
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
March 2018
Prof. Markov is Head of the Department of General Physiology at Saint Petersburg State University, and spent two weeks as the guest of PD Roman Rodionov, Head of the Angiology Research Lab at the University Center for Vascular Medicine of the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus.
Objective of the two-week stay was to intensify the collaboration of several years’ standing in the field of research, which has already led to several joint publications in renowned international journals over the past four years. Prof. Markov used his stay to familiarise himself with the infrastructure of the biomedical campus and to prepare a joint proposal for a German-Russian collaboration project at the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR).
School of Science
Dresden Junior Fellowship
8 November - 15 December 2018
Guest of Prof. Stefan Wanke Institute of Botany
Dr. Carolina Granados Mendoza works as a associate research scientist at the Botany Department of the Institute of Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has strong skills in botany including morphology, systematics, taxonomy and field work experience in Latin America.
During her visit as a DRESDEN Fellow she was working with Prof. Stefan Wanke on a research grant application and participated in teaching a Master course together with Prof. Wanke and other lab members called Phyloinformatics.
DRESDEN Junior Fellow
3-31 August 2018
Guest of Prof. Susanne Narciss Chair of Learning and Instruction, Faculty of Psychology
Prof. Sabina Kleitman, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science at The University of Sydney, is a world-leader in the field of psychological research, especially in the areas of metacognition, education and individual differences. She recently moved to the area of metacognitive assessment using simulations, simulation-embedded metrics and logfile data.
Her research interests include individual cognitive and metacognitive differences in learning and decision-making, with a special focus on the role of self-beliefs.
The aim of her visit was to establish an on-going collaborative program of research with Prof. Narciss in the areas of game and sim-embedded metrics and novel analytics using logfile data. Prof. Narciss and Prof. Kleitman shared their cutting-edge emerging methodologies using logfiles and gaming/simulation aiming to foster an on-going strategic collaboration into new assessment and training methods.
Professor Kleitman also shared her expertise in a talk and taught a workshop to PhD students of the Faculty of Psychology on the benefits and constraints of various calibration approaches.
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
23 June - 22 July 2018
Guest of Prof. Stefan Kaskel, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry I, Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry
Dr. Mark D. Allendorf counts among the world’s outstanding scientists in the field of research into porous materials. He is a researcher at the Sandia National Laboratory in California, where he has successfully supervised a working group for many years and coordinates major research projects in the field of hydrogen storage and energy materials. He is an internationally renowned, highly cited chemist with proven expertise in renewable energy technologies, including energy production, conversion, and storage. In 1980, he graduated in Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis and received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Stanford University in 1986.
As a Dresden Fellow, he helped to prepare a research project with colleagues from the TUD Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry.
Contact
Sandia National Laboratory
DRESDEN Senior Fellow
March – May 2018
Dr. Berta Gómez-Lorwas Dresden Senior Fellow at Prof Karl Leo at the Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials.
Dr. Gómez-Lor heads the group of organic electronics at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (https://wp.icmm.csic.es/oeg/) of the Spanish National Research Council. Her scientific work focuses on the synthesis of organic molecules for their assembly into functional nanostructures designed towards their incorporation in organic-based flexible devices. In this area, Berta Gómez-Lor brings a strong background in organic synthesis and an accumulated experience of more than 10 years in the development of molecules for applications in flexible electronics and photonics.
At TU Dresden Dr. Gómez-Lor collaborated with Prof Karl Leo in the field of organic electronics, especially on the development of devices based on high mobility self‐assembling semiconductors. Her goal was to initiate a partnership between the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid and the Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials at TU Dresden. The main field of scientific collaboration would cover the preparation of vertical transistors and solar cells using organic semiconductors synthesized in her labs as active layers.
Contact Information:
Dr. Berta Gómez-Lor
Bgl@icmm.csic.es
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