Field of Work
As a materials physicist, Prof. Guido Schmitz is interested in exploring and understanding the fundamental mechanisms at work in model materials. His group is mainly interested in the high-resolution analysis of solid-state reactions on a subnanometer length scale. Atomic transport and interfacial physics in coatings and multiple layers have a key role to play here.
The working group previously developed outstanding expertise in the field of atom-probe analysis, a measuring technique to determine atomic structure in the highest spatial resolution. In future, the aim is to promote this method as a tool with which to investigate polymer and soft material, too. This will give rise to important applications such as metallization in microelectronics, corrosion protection layers, chemical or magnetic sensors, thin-layer solar cells and solid-state batteries.
Personal Information
Materials scientist Guido Schmitz, born in 1962, studied physics in Freiburg and Göttingen, where he gained his doctorate under Prof. Peter Haasen in 1994 before going on to habilitate in 2002. He then held a professorship at the University of Münster, after which he was invited to join the Institute for Materials Science at the University of Stuttgart in 2012. Schmitz has spent periods of research at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a visiting professor at the Université de Rouen, France in 2008. He holds an honorary doctorate from the National University in Cherkasy, Ukraine, and was the recipient of the Werner Köster Prize of the German Materials Society (DGM) in 2009.