Congratulation
In December 2023, Maxim Saifulin successfully defended his dissertation on “Fast scintillating ZnO ceramics for relativistic heavy-ion beam diagnostics”.
The research project was carried out within the GSI Beam Diagnostic Group in close collaboration with the Materials Research Department and had the aim to develop a radiation-hard scintillation detector that can replace current plastic scintillators.
We congratulate Maxim and wish him all the best for his new position in the GSI Target Laboratory.
October 30, 2023 HGS-HIRe Awarding Ceremony, Foundation Giersch
We congratulate Dr. Verena Velthaus (left) on the Giersch Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis 2023 and our PhD student Christopher Schröck (center) on the Giersch-Excellence Award 2023.
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30. Oktober 2023 HGS-HIRe Preisverleihung, Stiftung Giersch
Wir gratulieren Verena Velthaus (links) zum Giersch Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis 2023 und unserem Doktoranden Christopher Schröck (Mitte) zum Giersch-Excellence Award 2023.
Gratulation und Willkommensgruß
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Pascal Simon zum erfolgreichen Abschluss seiner Promotion am 29. August 2023 an der TU Darmstadt. In seiner Doktorarbeit beschäftigte sich Pascal mit Kohlenstoff basierten Materialien für Hochleistungsbeschleunigerkomponenten, die extremen Strahlungsbedingungen ausgesetzt sind. Außerdem hat er die Lumineszenz-Eigenschaften von Diamanten unter Ionenbestrahlung untersucht.
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass Pascal seit November als Beamline Scientist unser Materialforschungsteam verstärkt. Seine 3-jährige Erfahrung am HighRadMat/CERN wird hierbei wertvolle Dienste leisten.
Congratulation to our PhD 2023 Verena Velthaus
Wir gratulieren Verena Velthaus ganz herzlich zum erfolgreichen Abschluss ihrer Promotion am 4. Juli 2023 an der TU Darmstadt.
In ihrer Arbeit beschäftigte sich Verena mit Materialfragen zur Reduzierung von Desorptionsprozessen die durch das Auftreffen von Ionenstrahlen auf Beschleunigerkomponenten ausgelöst werden und dadurch das dynamische Vakuum verschlechtern.
Wir gratulieren Verena zudem zu ihrer neuen Forschungsstelle und wünschen spannende neue Aufgaben.
We congratulate Verena Velthaus on the successful completion of her PhD on July 4, 2023 at the TU Darmstadt. In her dissertation, Verena investigated material issues for reducing desorption processes triggered when swift heavy ions impinge on accelerator components and degrade the dynamic vacuum. We also congratulate Verena on her new research position and wish her all the best for this new challenge.
Interview mit Alumna Dr. Janina Krieg (2023)
In Memoriam Kurt Schwartz
New Member
A warm welcome to our new postdoc Dr. Dila Kaya. (2022)
Dila received her M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in the Physical Chemistry program of Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. So far in her career, she mainly focused on ion-track etching and the applications of synthetic nanopores. Some of these applications are based on either resistive-pulse or ion-current rectification sensing paradigms using single nanopores for the detection of various analytes including biomaterials, nanoparticles and metal ions. She also has experience on tailoring nanopore geometry and surface groups as well as mass transport of analytes utilizing multiporous membranes. She joined us at GSI as a postdoc scientist to focus on the fabrication and design of nanopores to be used as protein crystallizing media for in situ diffraction data collection.
New Member
We kindly welcome Dr. Vishnu Chauhan, who joined our group as postdoc in October 2022.
Vishnu is the awardee of a Post-Doctoral Industrial Fellowship for one year, co-funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Indian Government and the BMBF. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, where he gained experience on ion beam irradiation effects and defect formation in metal oxides and nanocomposite thin films for various applications. During his stay at GSI, his research will concentrate on the synthesis and characterization of low-dimensional oxide materials.
Congratulation to our PhD 2022 Philipp Bolz
New Member
Dr. Vanina Cayón has recently joined the Materials Research group 2022 as a scientist to work on the design of antiviral surfaces using virus inactivation technologies. She has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the National University of La Plata (Argentina), where she gained experience from organic synthesis to conformational and structural characterization of molecules by various spectroscopic techniques supported by chemical quantum calculations. As a postdoc (Soft Matter Laboratory - INIFTA, Argentina) and in collaboration with GSI researchers, she focused on the investigation and rational design of nanofluidic devices based on track-etched solid-state nanochannels. At GSI, she plans to continue her training as a researcher in the field of materials for biosensing.
New Member
In August 2020, Dr. Frieder Koch joined the materials research group as a beamline scientist for the M-branch. With a background in X-ray optics and nanofabrication, he has worked on experiments at numerous international large scale research facilities, most recently as a postdoc in a collaboration between the Swiss Paul Scherrer Institute and the French Synchrotron Soleil. At GSI, he focuses on online, multimodal experiments involving diffraction and spectroscopy on materials under swift heavy ion irradiation.
