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Materialsysteme der Nanoelektronik
Professur Materialsysteme der Nanoelektronik
Materialsysteme der Nanoelektronik 
Oliver G. Schmidt Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. mult. Oliver G. Schmidt
Date of birth: July 4, 1971
Place of birth: Kiel
E-mail: oliver.schmidt (at) main.tu-chemnitz.de
Research profile: Google Scholar
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Publication record

No of publications: > 900
Cover pages: > 65
Citation index: > 62,000
H-index: = 128
m-index: > 4

Awards and honors

2024 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics
2024 Honorary Professor, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China
2024 Chair, Scientific Advisory Board for Life Science Technologies, Carl-Zeiss-Foundation
2022 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics
2022 Chair of the 2022 Challenge Committee in Energy Materials for Biological Applications, Novo Nordisk Foundation
2021 Leibniz Medal, Leibniz IFW Dresden
2021 Chair, Nature Conference on Microrobots and Nanorobots for Biotechnology
2020 Smallest Microelectronic Robot, Guinness World Records®
2020 Elected member of the Saxionian Academy of Sciences
2019 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics
2019 ERC Advanced Grant, European Research Council
2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation
2018 Elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2018 ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics
2013 International Dresden Barkhausen Award, Materials Research Network Dresden
2012 New Research Building "Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes" (MAIN),
Federal State and Free State of Saxony
2011 Honorary Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2010 Smallest Man-Made Jet Engine, Guinness World Records®
2010 Ace of Saxony, Free State of Saxony
2010 Nanotechnology Thought Leader, AzoNano
2006 Carus Prize, City of Schweinfurt
2005 Carus Medal, German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
2004 Laureate of the competition “Images of Science”, Max Planck Society
2004 Heinrich Düker Prize, Kepler Seminar for Natural Sciences
2003 Laureate of the Young Scientist Competition “Nanotechnology”,
German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
2002 Philip-Morris Research Award, Philip-Morris GmbH
2000 Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society
1993 Perkin Elmar Prize, King's College London

 

Professional career

2022 - Scientific Director, Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
2007 - Full Professorship, Material Systems for Nanoelectronics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
2007 - 2021 Director, Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany 
2004 - 2007 Private lecturer, University of Stuttgart
2002 - 2007 Head of Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
2001 - 2002 Research Associate, University of Southern California
1999 - 2001 Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
1996 - 1999 Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Education

2003 Habilitation (postdoctoral lecture qualification), University of Hamburg, Germany
1999 Graduation to Dr. rer. nat., Berlin University of Technology, German
1996 Diploma in Physics
1993 - 1996 Studies of Physics, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
1993 Bachelor of Science in Physics
1992 - 1993 Studies of Physics, King's College London, England
1990 - 1992 Studies of Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
1990 Abitur, German School London, England

Memberships

2022 - Executive Board, Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), TU Chemnitz
2022 - Elected member of the Senate and Grants Committee on Research Training Groups, DFG
2020 - Elected member of the Saxionian Academy of Sciences
2019 - Adjunct Professorship for Nanophysics, Faculty of Physics, TU Dresden
2018 -  Elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2010 - Institute of Physics, TU Chemnitz
2009 - Faculty for Natural Sciences, TU Chemnitz
2007 - Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Chemnitz
1994 - German Physical Society
2019 - 2021 Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, TU Dresden
2017 - 2021 Section D, Leibniz Association
2012 - 2019 Cluster of Excellence CfAED, TU Dresden
2012 - 2018 Cluster of Excellence MERGE, TU Chemnitz
2009 - 2021 Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Leibniz IFW Dresden)

Editorial board memberships

2017 - Editorial board member, "Advanced Materials Technologies"
2012 -  Editorial board member, "Particle"
2014 - 2017 Founding editorial board member, "Physical Review Applied"
2007 - 2009 Editorial board member, "Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics"
2006 - 2014 Regional editor (Europe), "Nanoscale Research Letters"

Review services for journals and magazines

  • Nature
  • Nature Materials
  • Nature Nanotechnology
  • Nature Energy
  • Nature Photonics
  • Nature Physics
  • Nature Chemistry
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Robotics
  • Science Advances
  • Nano letters
  • ACS Nano
  • JACS
  • applied chemistry
  • Advanced Materials
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Nanomedicine
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • IEEE Electron. Dev. Lett.
  • IEEE Trans. Electron. Dev.
  • IEEE Trans. Nanotechn.
  • IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett.
  • IEEE J. Microelectromech. Syst.
  • and many more ...

Review services for foundations

  • German Research Society
  • European Research Council (ERC)
  • European Union
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • United States Department of Energy
  • United States National Science Foundation
  • US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
  • Swiss National Fund
  • and many more ...