Technische Universität Wien
Institut für Festkörperphysik

FWF - I 623-N16: TQM

Funding institution:
FWF Austrian Science Fund

Project leader:

Silke BÜHLER-PASCHEN

Project duration:

April 2011 - October 2015

AUSTRIAN PROJECT TEAM

Prof. Dr. Silke Bühler-Paschen
Project leader

Head of Institute of Solid State Physics
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Dipl.-Ing. Jonathan Hänel, PhD student
April 2011 - September 2014
June 2015 - October 2015

  • MSc (Physics) from TU Vienna (2011)
  • Expertise: Resistivity, magnetization, thermal conductivity and thermopower measurements, strongly correlated electron systems
  • Tasks in project: Construction of thermopower measurement cells, thermal conductivity and thermopower measurements, thermoelectricity

Dr. Valentina Martelli
May 2012 - December 2012

  • MSc (Physics) from University of Florence, Italy (2008)
  • PhD from University of Florence, Italy (2012)
  • Expertise: Measurements of thermal properties at low temperature
  • Tasks in project: Thermal conductivity and thermopower measurements at low temperature

Robert Pierce, IAESTE student
December 2011 - March 2012

  • MPhys (Physics) from University of Leicester, UK (2011)
  • Expertise: Solid state physics
  • Tasks in project: Measurement setups, programming


MSc Lubuna Shafeek, PhD student
May 2012 - July 2012

  • MSc in organic electronics and system design from Linköping University, Sweden (2008)
  • MSc in applied electronics from Bharathiyar University, Thamilnadu, India (2001)
  • BSc in electronics from Calicut University, Kerala, India (1999)
  • Expertise: Synthesis and characterization of strongly correlated electron system, Nano structured material synthesis
  • Tasks in project: Thermoelectric material synthesis and characterization, magnetization, resistivity, and specific heat measurements

COLLABORATORS at TU Vienna

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Günther Lientschnig

  • MSc (Technical physics) from TU Vienna (1995)
  • PhD (Physics) from TU Delft, The Netherlands (2003)
  • Expertise: Nanofabrication, low level electrical measurements at low temperatures
  • Tasks in project: Development of nanofabricated measurement platform

BSc Michael Revesz, Master's student
Until February 2014

  • BSc from TU Vienna (2010)
  • Tasks in project: Automated measurement software and support

FRENCH COLLABORATOR

Prof. Dr. Kamran Behnia
Laboratoire Photons Et Matière - École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie industrielles (ESPCI), CNRS, Paris, France
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