Dietmar Vogel studied physics and received his PhD in plasma physics from St. Petersburg State University in 1980. Since 1993, he has been working with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration Berlin (IZM). He is Head of the Fraunhofer Nanomechanics Lab Berlin Adlershof, and of the research group on characterization of micro and nano systems, both a a division of the Micro Materials Center Berlin/Chemnitz. His main research field is in experimental micro and nano mechanics with a special emphasis on measuring techniques. For his work to improve reliability in micro- and nanotechnologies by means of nanodeformation analysis (nanoDAC), Dietmar Vogel received (together with his co-workers Bernd Michel and Juergen Keller) the Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Prize 2005, labelled "Reliable to the Nanometer", very recently.
Franz Reischer studied materials science and received his Ph. D. from the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg in the field of composite materials. Thereafter he started to work for Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH as a product manager for laser scanning microscopy.
Olaf Kahle studied physics and received Ph. D. in physics from Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus in 2002. Since 1996 he has been working at Fraunhofer IFAM and IZM, Branch lab Polymeric Materials and Composites in Teltow and since 2000 at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus. His main research field are thermophysical and mechanical properties of polymers, thin film and surface characterization, fracture mechanical characterization.
Janina Maultzsch received her PhD in physics from the Technical University Berlin in 2004. Since then she has been working as a researcher at TU Berlin and at Columbia University (USA). Her main research interests are the optical, electronic and vibrational properties of low-dimensional nanostructures, in particular carbon nanotubes and few-layer graphite. Her methods include (micro-/nano-) Raman spectroscopy among other optical techniques, as well as theoretical methods like ab-initio calculations.
Ude Hangen studied Physics at the RWTH-Aachen and received Ph. D. in 1998 for Investigations on solid-state phase transformations at the MPI for Iron Research in Duesseldorf. Since than he has been working on different aspects of materials characterization by scanning probe microscopy and nanoIndentation.
Dr. Holger Roth, born 1962, holds a doctorate degree in Physics issued by the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is head of phoenix|x-ray´s branch office Stuttgart which hosts an application laboratory, a service centre and a part of the marketing department. He has been working for phoenix|x-ray since the company´s foundation in April 1999.
Hans Walter received his Diploma Degree in Mechanical Science from Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 1995. From 1995 to 1999, he was a staff member of the Department of Engineering Science at Martin-Luther-University. In 1995, he also joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM), Berlin, who is still a member of today. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, in 2003. Since 2000, he has been co-working with the Angewandte Micro Messtechnik GmbH (AMIC), Germany.He is currently involved with thermo-mechanical characterisation and experimental determination of fracture behaviour of materials and components. He is head of the µ-Materials Testing Lab.
Angus J Wilkinson studied Chemical Physics (B.Sc. 1987) at the University of Bristol, where he continued to study for Ph.D. (1991) in the Department of
Engineering. In 1991 he moved to the Department of Materials, University of
Oxford, where he has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow, and is currently a University Lecturer, and Fellow of St Cross College. He has
been involved in development of SEM based diffraction techniques: electron
back scatter diffraction and electron channelling contrast imaging. His
research applies these techniques and many others to micromechanical
characterisation of a wide range of materials, both functional and
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