Nielsch Kornelius
Professor in Material Science / Director
Leibniz Inst for Solid State and Materials Researc
Dresden, Germany
My research focus is sustainable thermoelectric materials and devices for waste heat recovery and solid state cooling.
My organisation
Leibniz Inst for Solid State and Materials Researc
Leibniz Inst for Solid State and Materials Researc
University and Research Organisation
Dresden, Germany
About me
Since 2015 Director of IMW @ IFW and W3 Professor, TUD
2007 - 2015 W2 professorship for Experimental Physics (focus: thermoelectrics and magnetism), Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg
2007 Habilitation, University of Bielefeld (Topic: Multi- functional (Magnetic) Nanorods and Tubes from Nanoscale Honeycomb Structures), Germany
2003 - 2007 Head of BMBF nanotechnology research group on multifunctional nanorods and nanotubes, Max Planck Inst. for Microstructure Physics, Halle
2002 - 2003 Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA (Topic: Control of self-ordering material systems by lithographic methods)
1997 - 2002 PhD thesis, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle in the group of Prof. Ulrich Gösele (Topic: Highly ordered ferromagnetic nanorod ensembles - electrochemical fabrication and magnetic characterisation). Doctoral degree with "Summa cum laude" by the Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
1997 Diploma thesis at the University of Lund, Sweden in the group of Lars Samuelson and Kornelius Deppert (Topic: Generation of semiconducting nanoparticles from the gas phase and their physical characterisation)
1993 - 1997 Study of Physics, Gerhard-Mercator-University of Duisburg, Germany