Liesbeth Laurens, Universiteit Antwerpen

Knut Müller-Caspary

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

 

 


Education/Research experience

since 06/2018 – 05/2024 Group leader of the moreSTEM group in the framework of a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group fellowship, dedicated to momentum-resolved Scanning TEM.
03/2018 – 05/2018 Postdoc researcher at the institute of solid-state physics at the University of Bremen.
10/2016 – 02/2018 Postdoc researcher at the Institute for Electron Microscopy in Materials Science (EMAT), Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. Member of the group of Prof. Dr. Sandra Van Aert in the field of theoretical physics with focus on statistical parameter estimation.
09/2014 – 09/2016
Postdoc researcher at the institute of solid-state physics at the University of Bremen. Own DFG project under contract MU 3660/1-1.
03/2012 – 08/2014 Postdoc researcher within the framework of a competitive program to establish young postdocs, granted by the Central Research Development Fund of the University of Bremen. Own acquisition of funding for two independent funding periods.
04/2011 – 02/2012 Postdoc researcher at the institute of solid-state physics at the University of Bremen.
10/2007 – 05/2011 Graduation (Ph.D/Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bremen. Thesis: “Transmission electron microscopy of semiconductor nanostructures using ab-initio structure factors for strain-relaxed supercells”. Referees: Prof. Dr. A. Rosenauer, Prof. Dr. D. Gerthsen, (summa cum laude).
10/2001 – 09/2007 Studies of Physics at the University of Bremen.

  • Graduation (Diplom) 08/2006-08/2007. Thesis: “Determination of structure factors for GaAs by electron diffraction – Development and test of a measurement method”. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rosenauer (1.0).
  • Student research project 03-06/2006. Thesis: “Quantitative analysis of InGaN islands by high-resolution TEM”. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rosenauer (1.0).
  • Professional practical training at the Hamburger Synchrotron Strahlungslabor 02-04/2004.
  • Student assistant: Teaching and TEM specimen preparation since 2004.

Address:

Dr. rer. nat. Knut Müller-Caspary
– Group Leader –

Ernst-Ruska-Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Building 05.7 | Room 2020

phone: +49 2461 61-85237
e-mail: k.mueller-caspary@fz-juelich.de