Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan A.L. Weber Curriculum Vitae Born August 2nd, 1981 in Trier, Germany Nationality: German Researcher ID: F-1508-2013 ORCHID: 0000-0003-3052-326X Current position:
Since 2015 Junior Professor for high-resolution force microscopy at the department of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Since 2012 Group leader in the department “Physics at Interfaces” at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Mainz, Germany
Postdoc:
08/2011 - 07/2012 Feodor Lynen fellow at University College Dublin, Irland, Group Prof. Dr. Suzanne Jarvis and Dr. Brian Rodriguez.
11/2010 - 07/2011 Postdoc at the MPI for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany in the BMBF funded project “OPV Stabilität” on the stability of organic solar cells
Education/Training:
11/2010 Joint doctoral degree in Physics from Seoul National University, Republic of Korea and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Grade: with honors/„summa cum laude“
09/2007 - 11/2010 PhD candidate in the German-Korean IRTG 1404 at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, in the group of Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Butt.
02-04/2010 and 12/2008 - 04/2009
Research stays at Seoul National University, Republic Korea, in the groups of Prof. Dr. C. Lee and Prof. Dr. K. Char
07/2006 - 07/2007 Diploma thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Boneberg, Department of Physics, University of Konstanz
10/2001 - 07/2007 Physics student at University of Konstanz, Diploma grade: „very good/sehr gut“
09/1992 - 06/2001 Highschool: Gymnasium am Hoptbühl, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Abitur grade: 1.5
Honors, Awards and Scholarships
2011 – 2012 Feodor Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a postdoc project at the University College Dublin, Ireland 2007 – 2010 PhD Scholarship in the German-Korean International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Self-organized Materials for Optoelectronics” at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan A.L. Weber Curriculum Vitae Invited talks (selection)
01.07.2015 Invited talk on „Real Space Observation of Unbalanced Charge Distribution Inside a Perovskite-Sensitized Solar Cell” at the Microscience Microscopy Congress of the Royal Microscopy Society in Manchester, England
15.3.2018 Invited talk on “Understanding Hysteresis in Perovskite Solar Cells” at the DPG spring meeting, Berlin
5.4.2018 Invited talk on “Watching ions move – Scanning Probe Microscopy on Perovskite Solar Cells” at the School of Physics, University College Dublin, Ireland
25.10.2018 Invited talk on “Watching ions move – Scanning Probe Microscopy on Perovskite Solar Cells” at the nanoGe Fall Meeting, Torremolinos (Malaga), Spain.
Scientific Conference Organization (selection)
2014 Symposium organizer at the MRS Spring Meeting 2014 in San Francisco, USA; Symposium BBB: Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy for Material Properties
2015 Organizer of the Summer school “Investigating the solid-liquid interface“ of the ITN ARCITAS and the “MAINZ” graduate school in Mainz
2019 Symposium organizer at the nanGE Fall meeting Berlin, Germany
Publishing and reviewing
Author of 34 scientific papers and 2 book chapters; h-index: 18 (web of science) Journal referee among others for Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Joule, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Joule, Nanotechnology. Publons profile: publons.com/a/1316248/ Teaching and Supervision of Students
Lectures on solid state physics (summer term/ST 15, ST 17 and planned ST19), soft matter physics (ST 14, ST 16) and physics for medical students (winter term 16/17, ST 18) and several tutorial lectures and seminars.
Supervision of 4 PhD students (ongoing), 3 Master students (2 ongoing) and 5 bachelor students (1 ongoing); co- supervision of 3 PhD students (1 ongoing) and 2 Diploma students.
Other Activities
12/2014 – 05/2015 Parental leave
2013 Scientific advisor for the children’s book ,,Was ist Was - Energie''
2008-2011 Chrosängerausbildung (Chorister training) at the Collegium Musicum, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Language skills
English (fluent), Korean (basics), Latin („kleines Latinum“)