Kornelius Nielsch

Prof. Dr. Kornelius Nielsch is the Director of the Institute for Metallic Materials (IFW Dresden) and a Full Professor for Metallic Materials and Metal Physics at Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden). He previously held academic positions at the University of Hamburg (Professor, 2007–2015), Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics (Project Leader, 2003–2007), MIT (Postdoc, 2002–2003), and University of Bielefeld (Habilitation, 2007).

Education

• Diploma in Physics, Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg (1993–1997)
• Diploma Thesis: Fabrication of semiconductor nanoparticles in the gas phase and its physical characterisation, Lund University (1997)
• PhD in Physics (with highest honors), Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics (1997–2002)
• PhD Thesis: Highly ordered ferromagnetic nanowire arrays: Electrochemical synthesis and magnetic characterization

Research Focus

• Thermoelectric nanowires for energy conversion
• Nanograined bulk materials and devices
• Topological insulators and Weyl semimetals
• Multifunctional nanowires and nanotubes
• Atomic Layer Deposition for 3D nanostructures
• Magnetic characterization of nanoscale systems
• Superconducting materials and applications

Scientific Activities & Grants

• Coordinator of DFG Priority Programme 1386: Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials
• Editor-in-Chief of Semiconductor Science and Technology (since 2012)
• Five major funded projects (2009–2019): DFG SPP 1386, EU H2020 TISP, DFG SpinCAT, SAB GroTEGx, EU FP7 M3D
• Acknowledged as a top 100 materials scientist (2000–2010) by Thomson Reuters (2011)
• Habilitation on multifunctional magnetic nanowires and nanotubes

Awards

• Young Investigator Award (BMBF, 2002)
• Research Prize of Saxony-Anhalt (2006)
• Top 100 Materials Scientist Recognition (2011)