Dr. rer. nat. Thorsten Staedler
Chair of Surface and Materials Technology
Institute of Materials Engineering
University of Siegen
Paul-Bonatz-Straße 9-11
57076 Siegen
GERMANY
Activities
Leading research associate (Chief Engineer). Responsible for the analytical section of the Chair of Surface and Materials Technology. Acquisition of research projects. Research and Teaching.
Research Interests
Thin films technology, microsystems technology, MEMS, mechanical and tribological characterization of film/substrate systems, nanotechnology
Academic Career
since June 2003
Chief Engineer at the Chair of Surface and Materials Technology, University of Siegen, Germany
October 2001
Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, New York, USA
September 2001
Promotion (PhD) at the Technical University of
Braunschweig, Germany, Department of Physics
The work was carried out at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Thin Films and Surface Engineering, Braunschweig, in the
context of the SFB 516 "Design and Manufacturing of active
Microsystems"
Thesis title: "Mechanical and tribological characterization
of thin films based on scanning-probe techniques"
August 1998
Diplom (M.Sc.) at the Technical University of
Braunschweig, Germany, Department of Physics
The work was carried out at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Thin Films and Surface Engineering, Braunschweig
Thesis title: "Ex- and in-situ spectro-ellipsometrical
characterization of thin ZnO:Al and TiO2 films"
August 1994
Vordiplom (B.Sc.) at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Department of Physics
July 1991
Abitur (A-levels)