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I work in the field of organic semiconductors and am interested in the
fundamental optical and electronic properties of these systems. The aim
of my research is to develop new frameworks and ideas to enable the
creation of truly molecular optoelectronic devices. I started my PhD
working on organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The bulk of my work
focused on the development of a new class of materials based on
star-shaped molecules, called dendrimers. I performed a wide range of
measurements and calculations on these systems, which also led to the
filing of a number of patents.
More recently, I have developed a number of techniques for the
characterisation of defects in conjugated polymers using ultrafast
fluorescence spectroscopy and gated electroluminescence spectroscopy.
Further interests have been in molecular thermometry and semiconductor
microcavities. I am now working on using single molecule spectroscopy
to gain a microscopic understanding of charge generation and
recombination and excitation energy transfer processes as well as
assessing the possibility of quantum electrodynamical control of
individual excitations. My main focus is on excitonic effects in
conjugated polymers, triplet spectroscopy of organic semiconductors and
the photophysics of novel inorganic colloidal semiconductor
nanostructures.
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1997 |
B.Sc. in Physics from Durham University
(UK); Award of Henry Walters Prize and Chalmers Prize in Experimental
Physics |
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1997 |
CERN Summer student |
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1999 |
DAAD Research Fellow, University of Marburg
(Prof. H. Bässler) |
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2000 |
Visiting Scientist, University of
Rochester, NY (Prof. S. Mukamel) |
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2000 |
Ph. D. in Physics, University of Durham
(Prof. I. Samuel) |
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2000 |
Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews
(Prof. I. Samuel) |
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2001 |
Project group leader, Max Planck Institute
for Polymer Research, Mainz (Prof. G. Wegner) |
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2002 |
University Assistant, Photonics and
Optoelectronics Group, University of Munich |
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2005 |
Offer of a W2/C3 Professorship (University
of Kiel) as well as a Professorship (University of Utah) |
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2006 |
Associate Professor of Physics, University
of Utah |
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2006 |
Award of the Max Auwärter Prize
through the Austrian Physical Society |
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2008 |
Award of the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering |
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2010 |
RCSA Scialog award |
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2010 |
Full Professor of Physics and Astronomy |
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2010 |
Professor of Physics (Chair), University of Regensburg |
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