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This page was last updated in January 2022.

Responsibility for scientific, technical and administrative staff

In the Institute for Microstructure Research (PGI-5) and the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C 1 and ER-C 2) in Forschungszentrum Jülich, Rafal Dunin-Borkowski and Joachim Mayer (co-Director of the ER-C) are responsible for the following staff, as well as for all visiting scientists to the institutes:

 

 

1. Electroceramics and nanoelectronic oxides working group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Lei Jin

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Tingting Yang

 

Scientific staff (OCPC)

 

 

Mr. Zheng Ma

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Zonghua Wan

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Changming Liu

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Zhuolin Fu

 

Masters student

 

 

Prof. Chunlin Jia

 

Emeritus scientific staff and Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

 

 

 

 

 

2. Quantum materials working group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Martina Luysberg

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Xiankui Wei (ER-C 2)

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Abdul Rehmann Jalil

 

Doctoral researcher jointly with PGI-9

 

 

Ms. Sara Alkhereibi (ER-C 2)

 

Doctoral researcher jointly with IEK-5

 

 

 

 

 

3. Electromagnetic field mapping working group

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

 

Institute Director

 

 

 

 

 

Magnetic field mapping sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. András Kovács

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Thibaud Denneulin

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Fengshan Zheng

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Deli Kong

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Patrick Diehle

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Nithin Balaji Venkataraman

 

Masters student

 

 

Dr. Hasan Ali

 

Visiting scientific staff from the University of Uppsala, Sweden (from August 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

Electric field mapping sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Janghyun Jo

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Xue Bai

 

Masters student

 

 

 

 

 

Time-resolved imaging sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Yoshie Murooka

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Benjamin Zingsem

 

Visiting scientific staff from the University of Duisburg-Essen

 

 

Ms. Teresa Wessels

 

Visiting scientific staff from the University of Duisburg-Essen

 

 

 

 

 

Electron beam shaping sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Amir H Tavabi

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Penghan Lu

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Prof. Giulio Pozzi

 

Visiting Professor from the University of Bologna, Italy

 

 

 

 

 

4. Theory and data science working group

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Stefan Sandfeld

 

Institute of Advanced Simulation (IAS) Director

 

 

 

 

 

Electron optics sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Andreas Thust

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Markus Lentzen

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

Data management and automation sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Dieter Weber

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Alexander Clausen

 

Scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

5. moreSTEM working group

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Knut Müller-Caspary

 

Helmholtz Young Investigator Group leader and Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

 

Dr. Arya Bangun

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Benedikt Diederichs

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Hoel Robert

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Mauricio Cattaneo

 

Doctoral researcher (JUMPA)

 

 

Mr. Achim Strauch

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Max-Leo Leidl

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Felix Dushimineza

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Hubert Dulisch

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Simon Arnoldi

 

Masters student

 

 

 

 

 

6. Nanofabrication and quantum sensing working group

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Michael I Faley

 

Permanent scientific staff and Adjunct Professor in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

 

 

Mr. Mengying Tang

 

Masters student (in cooperation with JCNS-2/PGI-4)

 

 

Mr. Torsten Röper

 

Masters student (in cooperation with PGI-9)

 

 

Mr. Raphael Roth

 

Masters student (in cooperation with PGI-9)

 

 

Dr. Matvey Lyatti

 

Visiting scientific staff from PGI-9

 

 

Dr. Irina Gundareva

 

Visiting scientific staff from PGI-9

 

 

Dr. Yuri Divin

 

Visiting scientific staff from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

 

 

Dr. Ulrich Poppe

 

Emeritus scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

7. Metallic alloys and crystal growth working group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Mick Feuerbacher

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Luyan Yang

 

Scientific staff (jointly with the electromagnetic field mapping working group)

 

 

Mr. Tim Lienig

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Carsten Thomas

 

Technical staff

 

 

Dr. Benjamin Grushko

 

Emeritus scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

8. Nanomaterials for green energy working group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Marc Heggen

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Paul Paciok

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Pengfei Cao

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Kateryna Loza

 

Visiting scientific staff from the University of Duisburg-Essen

 

 

Dr. Nina Siebers

 

Scientific staff jointly with IBG-3

 

 

Mr. Ansgar Meise

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Ms. Therese Cibaka

 

Doctoral researcher together with IEK-5

 

 

Mr. Yongqiang Kang

 

Doctoral researcher from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School

 

 

Ms. Nina Gumbiowski

 

Visting doctoral researcher from the University of Duisburg-Essen

 

 

 

 

 

9. Electronic structure of nanoscale materials working group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Philipp Ebert

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Michael Schnedler

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Qianqian Lan

 

Scientific staff (jointly with the electromagnetic field mapping working group)

 

 

Dr. Yan Lu

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Lars Freter

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Keyan Ji

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Ms. Vita Mergner

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

 

 

 

10. ER‑C 2 staff and students

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Juri Barthel

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Hongchu Du

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Shibabrata Basak

 

Scientific staff (jointly with IEK-9)

 

 

Ms. Helen Estefania Valencia

 

Masters student

 

 

Ms. Lea Risters

 

Technical staff

 

 

 

 

 

Applied nanomaterials sub-group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Hilde Hardtdegen

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Martin Mikulics

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

11. Soft materials and colloids working group

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Beate Förster

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Wiebke Sager

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

12. Scientific, administrative and technical support staff

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Genevieve Wilbs

 

Permanent staff: scientific support and project management

 

 

Dr. Markus Schmitz

 

Permanent staff: scientific and strategic support

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Marie Göcking

 

Administrative staff: personal assistant to the Directors

 

 

Ms. Stephanie Steinmann (ER‑C 2)

 

Administrative staff: personal assistant to the Directors (part-time)

 

 

Ms. Gabrielle Mertzbach

 

Administrative staff

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. René Borowski

 

Technical staff: electron microscopes (to start in April 2021)

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Max Kruth

 

Technical staff: technical drawings and instrument development

 

 

Mr. Reimund Gehlhaar

 

Technical staff: instrumentation

 

 

 

 

 

Ms. Lidia Kibkalo

 

Technical staff: specimen preparation

 

 

Ms. Wilma Sybertz

 

Technical staff: specimen preparation

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Alexander Müller

 

IT suppport

 

 

Ms. Larissa Bressau

 

Intern (to start in 2022)

 

 

 

 

 

13. External staff working in the Ernst Ruska-Centre

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Knut Urban

 

JARA Senior Professor

 

 

Dr. Marta Lipinska-Chwalek

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Alexander Meledin

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Maria Meledina

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Ke Ran

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Ms. Jin Hee Bae

 

Staff at PGI-9

 

 

Dr. Roland Schierholz

 

Permanent scientific staff at IEK-9

 

 

Dr. Meital Shviro

 

Permanent scientific staff at IEK-3

 

 

 

 

 

14. Long-term and frequent visitors

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Les Allen

 

University of Melbourne, Australia

 

 

Dr. Trevor Almeida

 

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

 

 

Dr. Maya Bar Sadan

 

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

 

 

Prof. Hamish Fraser

 

Ohio State University, USA

 

 

Dr. Vincenzo Grillo

 

CNR Istituto Nanoscience, Modena, Italy

 

 

Dr. Lothar Houben

 

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

 

 

Prof. Wolfgang Jäger

 

Kiel University, Germany

 

 

Dr. Daesung Park

 

PTB, Braunschweig, Germany

 

 

Dr. W Owen Saxton

 

University of Cambridge, UK

 

 

Prof. David J Smith

 

Arizona State University, USA

 

 

Dr. Emrah Yucelen

 

Microsoft, Delft, The Netherlands

 

 

Prof. Xiaoyan Zhong

 

City University of Hong Kong, China

 

 

Former staff in the Institute for Microstructure Research in Forschungszentrum Jülich who left the institute since 2011:

 

 

Dr. Katherine MacArthur

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Eva-Maria Würtz

 

Technical staff

 

 

Dr. Sabrina Masur

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Benjamin März

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Yuhan Wang

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Hleb Fiadziushkin

 

Masters student

 

 

Ms. Tanvi Bhatnagar

 

Doctoral researcher jointly with the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science

 

 

Dr. PengYi Tang

 

Humboldt postdoctoral fellow

 

 

Mr. Christian Braun

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Werner Pieper

 

Technical staff: electron microscopes

 

 

Dr. Karsten Tillmann

 

Permanent staff: coordination and user office

 

 

Ms. Xiao Hou

 

Masters student

 

 

Ms. Jae-Yeon Jo

 

Visiting student from Seoul National University, Korea

 

 

Mr. Yuchen Liu

 

Masters student

 

 

Dr. Jiecai Fu

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Shucheng Guo

 

Masters student

 

 

Dr. Dongsheng Song

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Martin Gocyla

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Mr. Xinchen Zhang

 

Masters student jointly with IEK-5

 

 

Mr. Jianwei Ye

 

Masters student

 

 

Dr. Elisabeth Josten

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Anastasiia Lesnichaia

 

Student intern

 

 

Mr. Shabbir Tahir

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Paolo Rosi

 

Visiting student from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

 

Mr. Rolf Speen

 

Technical staff: instrumentation

 

 

Dr. Jan Caron

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Vincent Bosboom

 

Visiting student from the University of Twente

 

 

Mr. Timur Bikulov

 

Masters student

 

 

Ms. Rebecca Rodrigo

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Xu Han

 

Visiting student from the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Barcelona, Spain

 

 

Prof. Shanmugan Sankaran

 

Visiting Professor

 

 

Dr. Mohamad Riza Iskandar

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Vadim Migunov

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Jens Keutgen

 

Doctoral researcher jointly with RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Mr. Alexander Krings

 

Masters student

 

 

Dr. Manuel Bornhöfft

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Florian Winkler

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Christoforus Dimas Satrya

 

Visiting Masters student from the University of Twente

 

 

Mr. Yuanxu Gao

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Zhanqi Chen

 

Masters student

 

 

Ms. Zhuo Li

 

RWTH-Tsinghua scholarship student from Tsinghua University

 

 

Mr. Shawn Gao

 

RWTH-Tsinghua scholarship student from Tsinghua University

 

 

Mr. Xinfeng Chen

 

Visiting Doctoral researcher from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

 

Ms. Karina Ruzaeva

 

Masters student

 

 

Mr. Ulrich Tromm

 

Doctoral researcher jointly with PGI-9

 

 

Ms. Dimitra Petrou

 

Visiting student from the University of Cyprus

 

 

Ms. Doris Meertens

 

Technical staff: specimen preparation (focused ion beam)

 

 

Dr. Verena Portz

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Hyang Kang

 

DAAD student

 

 

Mr. Antoine Clement

 

Visiting student

 

 

Mr. Enzo Rotunno

 

Visiting student from CNR NANO, Italy

 

 

Mr. Sheng Cheng

 

Visting doctoral researcher from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

 

 

Mr. Maximilian Staggenborg

 

Student from RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Lei Zhang

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Pengyi Tang

 

Visiting Ph.D. student from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

 

 

Mr. Jiangjing Wang

 

Visting Ph.D. student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

 

 

Mr. Jay Shah

 

Visiting Ph.D. student from Imperial College London, UK

 

 

Mr. Karl-Heinz Graf

 

Technical staff

 

 

Ms. Ingrid Rische-Radloff

 

Administrative staff: personal assistant to the Director

 

 

Mr. Pingluen Ho

 

Visting Ph.D. student from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

 

Ms. Ekaterina Kostyurina

 

Visiting student from the Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Moscow, Russia

 

 

Dr. Maryam Beigmohamadi

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Chai Ke

 

Visting Ph.D. student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

 

 

Ms. Natalia Fernández Delgado

 

Visting Ph.D. student from the University of Cádiz, Spain

 

 

Mr. Federico Venturi

 

Visting Ph.D. student from CNR Istituto Nanoscience, Modena, Italy

 

 

Dr. Yen-Ting Chen

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Ms. Kun Liu

 

Visting Ph.D. student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

 

 

Mr. Takuya Maeda

 

Visting Ph.D. student from Kyushu University, Japan

 

 

Mr. Zechao Wang

 

Visting Ph.D. student from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

 

Dr. Lothar Houben

 

Permanent scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Fei Man Hsiao

 

Visiting Ph.D. student from National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

 

 

Dr. Zi-An Li

 

Visiting scientific staff from the University of Duisburg-Essen

 

 

Ms. Christa Claßen

 

Masters student

 

 

Dr. Martial Duchamp

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Kiyou Shibata

 

Visting Ph.D. student from the University of Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Mr. Janghyun Jo

 

Visting Ph.D. student from Seoul National Univesity, South Korea

 

 

Dr. Thomas Duden

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Chris B Boothroyd

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Christian Dwyer

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Lan-Yun Shery Chang

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Ms. Steffi Lenk

 

Technical staff at PGI-9

 

 

Mr. Jonas Werner

 

Masters student at ICS-3

 

 

Mr. Alexander Snezhko

 

Visiting Ph.D. student

 

 

Mr. Dmitri Schuller

 

Bachelor student

 

 

Dr. Markus Heidelmann

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Robert Imlau

 

Doctoral researcher jointly with IEK-5

 

 

Mr. Lei Zhang

 

Visiting Ph.D. student from the University of Siegen, Germany

 

 

Ms. Hongmei Jing

 

Visiting Ph.D. student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

 

 

Mr. Fabian Wendt

 

Masters student jointly with PGI-9

 

 

Mr. Gautier Dufourcq

 

Intern (2014)

 

 

Mr. Adrien Jaboin

 

Intern (2014)

 

 

Dr. Justinas Palisaitis

 

Scientific staff at RWTH Aachen University

 

 

Dr. Xiaowei Jin

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Phillip Weidlich

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Dr. Anna Heidt

 

Doctoral researcher

 

 

Dr. Stefan Roitsch

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Daniel Stroppa

 

Scientific staff

 

 

Dr. Yi Zeng

 

Vistiting scientific staff

 

 

Mr. Martin Lachmann

 

Diploma student

 

 

Mr. Marc Weidenbach

 

Student

 

 

Ms. Marita Schmidt

 

Technical staff

 

 

Mr. Vincent Vignères

 

Intern (2013)

 

 

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In the Technical University of Denmark (2006-2011), he was responsible for the following staff:

 

 

1. Scientific staff

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jakob B Wagner

 

 

 

 

Dr. Chris B Boothroyd

 

 

 

 

Dr. Takeshi Kasama

 

 

 

 

Dr. Marco Beleggia

 

 

 

 

Dr. Thomas W Hansen

 

 

 

 

Dr. Alice Bastos da Silva Fanta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Postdoctoral scientists

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Christian D Damsgaard

 

 

 

 

Dr. Martial Duchamp

 

 

 

 

Dr. András Kovács

 

 

 

 

Dr. Lionel C Gontard

 

 

 

 

Dr. Amuthan Ramar

 

Ørsted postdoctoral fellow

 

 

 

 

 

3. Affiliated postdoctoral scientists

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Shima Khadkodazadeh

 

DTU Fotonik

 

 

Dr. Tim J Booth

 

DTU Nanotech

 

 

Dr. Aleksei Savenko

 

DTU Nanotech

 

 

Dr. Alessandra Mosca

 

DTU Mek

 

 

Dr. Katrin Löschner

 

DTU Food

 

 

 

 

 

4. Ph.D. Students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Filippo Cavalca

 

 

 

 

Mr. Linus D L Duchstein

 

 

 

 

Mr. Johan Persson

 

 

 

 

Mr. Robert S Pennington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Affiliated Ph.D. Students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Eric Jensen

 

DTU Nanotech

 

 

Mr. Erik Brok

 

DTU Fysik

 

 

Ms. Louise Søgaard Jensen

 

DTU Mek

 

 

Mr. Hossein Alimadadi

 

DTU Mek

 

 

Ms. Trine Colding Lomholt

 

DTU Mek

 

 

 

 

 

6. Visiting students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Sadegh Yazdi

 

Imperial College London, UK

 

 

Mr. Quentin Jeangros

 

EPFL, Switzerland

 

 

Ms. Olivia Nicoletti

 

University of Cambridge, UK

 

 

Mr. Mathias Wötzel

 

University of Konstanz, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

7. Administrative and technical staff

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Andrew Burrows

 

 

 

 

Dr. Anita Kildebæk Nielsen

 

 

 

 

Ms. Anna Rink Baagøe

 

 

 

 

Ms. Lotte Høgh

 

 

 

 

Mr. Adam Fuller

 

 

 

 

Ms. A Nicole MacDonald

 

 

 

 

Ms. Anne Marie Rasmussen

 

 

 

 

Ms. Berit Wenzell

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ramona V Mateiu

 

 

 

 

Dr. Zoltan Balogh

 

 

 

 

Ms. Pradnya Chavan

 

Visiting staff

 

 

 

 

 

8. Affiliated staff

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Andy Horsewell

 

DTU Mek

 

 

Dr. Kristian Mølhave

 

DTU Nanotech

 

 

Dr. Cathrine Frandsen

 

DTU Fysik

 

 

Mr. Lars Schulte

 

DTU Mek

 

 

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In the University of Cambridge (2000-2006), he was responsible for the following staff:

 

 

1. Postdoctoral scientists

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Takeshi Kasama

 

 

 

 

Dr. Diana Zhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Ph.D. Students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Edward T Simpson

 

 

 

 

Ms. Yanna Antypas

 

 

 

 

Mr. Ryan K K Chong

 

 

 

 

Mr. Lionel C Gontard

 

 

 

 

Mr. David Cooper

 

 

 

 

Ms. Philippa K Somodi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Affiliated Ph.D. Students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Nathan S Church

 

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

 

 

 

 

 

4. Visiting students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Matthias Eltsckha

 

University of Konstanz, Germany

 

 

Mr. Filippo Ubaldi

 

Bologna University, Italy

 

 

Ms. Eva-Maria Hempe

 

University of Regensburg, Germany

 

 

Ms. Friederike Junginger

 

University of Konstanz, Germany

 

 

Mr. Henri Ehrke

 

University of Konstanz, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

5. Masters students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Nitin Aggarwal

 

 

 

 

Mr. Prabeer Barpanda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Project and vacation students

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Chris Taylor

 

 

 

 

Ms. Nicola McKie

 

 

 

 

Ms. Anna Finlayson

 

 

 

 

Ms. Laura Border

 

 

 

 

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