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)