Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt from Chemnitz University of Technology Has Been once again Honored as One of the Most Cited Researchers in the World

The researcher and Scientific Director of Research Center MAIN at Chemnitz University of Technology is among the top-1-percent of the most cited scientists listed in the exclusive ISI “Highly Cited Researchers” 2024 ranking

Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt, professor for Material Systems of Nanoelectronics and Scientific Director at the Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) at Chemnitz University of Technology, has been listed again as one of the most cited researchers in the world. This results from an analyzation of the ranking "Highly Cited Researcher" annually performed by the Institute for Scientific Information with data provided by the American company Clarivate Analytics. After 2018, 2019 and 2022, Prof. Schmidt is once again among the top-1-percent of the most cited scientists worldwide and thus one of the most influential scientific authors. Within this ranking, Prof. Schmidt is listed in the "Cross-Field" category. His research is attributed a particularly outstanding scientific significance beyond his own field of expertise.

"This repeated award is of course not the achievement of one individual only, but the result of many contributors. My warmest thanks therefore go in particular to my team at Chemnitz University of Technology, and also to the members of my former working groups at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart," says Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt.

"I would like to warmly congratulate Prof. Schmidt on this outstanding achievement. He has once again impressively demonstrated the extremely high quality of his research and his international visibility," says Prof. Dr. Gerd Strohmeier, Rector at Chemnitz University of Technology.

The citation frequency, which was analyzed as part of the ranking, indicates how often researchers cite a particular publication in their research works. This makes inclusion among the "Highly Cited Researchers" a decisive indicator of the scientific influence of a publication. This year, a total of 6,636 researchers from 59 countries are represented in the ranking. In the international comparison by country, Germany, with 332 "Highly Cited Researchers", ranks fourth worldwide behind the USA, China and the United Kingdom.

Background: Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt

Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt has been endowed as Scientific Director at the Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) at Chemnitz University of Technology in 2022. At Research Center MAIN, fundamental physical and chemical properties of flexible nanostructured membranes ("nanomembranes") are investigated and developed with a viewpoint to lift their vast engineering application potential.

Prof. Schmidt has received several outstanding awards, including the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize" of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2018 and one of the prestigious "ERC Advanced Grants" by the European Research Council in 2019. In 2018, he was elected to the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech). He has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 2020. In 2022, he was appointed to the Senate Committee and the Grants Committee of the DFG for Graduate Schools, two of the highest bodies of the DFG.

In the recent time, Prof. Schmidt's research team has achieved several groundbreaking research successes. These include

• the development of tiny magnetic springs,
• a novel sensor system for e-skin applications,
• the world's smallest battery,
• the smallest biosupercapacitor,
• the smallest microelectronic catheter and
• the smallest microelectronic robot.

For further information please contact Dr. Thomas Blaudeck (Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN), Telefon +49 (0)371 531-35610, E-Mail thomas.blaudeck@main.tu-chemnitz.de).

(Translation: Dr. Thomas Blaudeck)

Mario Steinebach
20.12.2024

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