PEOPLE
Current Team
Head - Gilles R. Bourret, PhD
Associate-Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Salzburg University (AT)
M. Eng. and MSc. in Materials Physics, National Institute for Applied Sciences (Toulouse, France)
PhD in Chemistry, McGill University (Canada)
Post-doctoral fellow, Chad Mirkin group, International Institute for Nanotechnology - Northwestern University (USA)
PhD student - Joshua Piaskowski
MSc. in Chemistry and Physics of Materials, University of Salzburg
BSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Salzburg
Topic: Synthesis and Study of Heterometallic Gapped Nanorods for Plasmonic Catalysis
PhD student - Amin Farhadi
MSc. in Nanomaterials, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
BSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology
Topic: Optimizing Catalyst Loading within Nanostructured Si Photocathodes
PhD student - Theresa Bartschmid
MSc. in Chemistry and Physics of Materials, University of Salzburg
BSc. in Materials Science and Engineering, University Salzburg
Topic: Synthesis and Study of Silicon-Ru, Rh Nanowire Arrays for Photocatalysis
Postdoctoral Fellow - Jakub Zaleska, Dr.
PhD, Materials Science, Erich Schmid Institute of Material Science (Leoben, Austria) and Montanuniversität Leoben (Leoben, Austria)
Topic: Plasmon mapping via EELS
Co-supervision with Prof. Simone Pokrant and Nicola Hüsing, Salzburg
Master student - Guillem Vives Olle
BSc., Chemistry, Spain
Topic: Synthesis of Nanoscale BTO and TiO2 for Charge Separation Studies
Co-supervision with Prof. Oliver Diwald, Salzburg
Bachelor student - Raimund Pickhardt
Topic: Synthesis of metal heterostructures for CO2 conversion
Past members
Teresa Lankl
MSc. Thesis 2023 - Nanostructured Metal-Silicon for CO2 conversion
Current position: NA
Meisam Hasheminejad
Visiting Postdoc from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran (Iran)
Radim Bartoš
Visiting PhD student 2023 from Brno University (Czech Republic) - Synthesis of heterometallic AuRh nanorods for photocatalysis
Current position: PhD student (Brno, Czech Republic)
Horia Barb
MSc. Thesis 2020 - Spatioselective Deposition of Electrocatalytic Layers on Si Nanowire Arrays
Current position: process engineer at Infineon (Villach, Austria)
Dr. Fedja Wendisch
PhD Thesis 2016-2020 - Nanostructuring silicon in 3D
Current position: postdoctoral fellow at LMU in the group of Stefan Maier (Germany)
Mehri Abazari
Visiting PhD student from Iran, University of Salzburg
Currently finishing her PhD in Chemistry, Tehran Polytechnic University (Iran)
Michael Saller
Master Thesis 2019
Current position: scientist at Stratec, Salzburg (AT)
Dr. Johannes Österreicher
PhD Thesis 2015-2018
Uni Salzburg/Center for Light Metals from AIT (Austrian Institute of Technology)/HAI Inc. (industrial research project) co-supervised with Prof. Nicola Hüsing
Current position: senior scientist at AIT, Salzburg (AT)
Alex Eadie
Master Thesis 2018
Current position: PhD student with Airbus, Munich (DE)
Richard Oberreiter
Master Thesis 2015
Currently scientist at AB Mikroelectronics, Salzburg (AT)