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Name: Norbert KOCH
Date of birth: 20.06.1971
Born in: Villach, Austria
Citizenship: Austria
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1977 - 1981 | Primary school in Feldkirchen i.K. (Austria) |
1981 - 1989 | High School “BRG Peraustraße” in Villach (Austria) |
1989 - 1990 | Military service, Klagenfurt (Austria) |
1990 - 1997 | Studying "Technische Physik" at the Technische Universität Graz (Austria) |
1995 - 1997 | Diploma Thesis at the Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Graz (Austria); supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günther Leising |
1997 | 2. Diplomprüfung (Diploma Thesis Defense), “mit Auszeichnung” |
1997 – 2000 | Graduate Student at the Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Graz (Austria); supervisor: Prof. Dr. Günther Leising. “Electronic Properties of Organic/Metal Interfaces“ |
2000 | Defense of Doctoral Thesis, “mit Auszeichnung” |
2000 – 2002 | Joint Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry (Prof. Jeffrey Schwartz) and the Department of Electrical Engineering (Prof. Antoine Kahn), Princeton University, Princeton (USA) |
2003 – 2004 | Research Associate at the Institut für Physik (Prof. Jürgen P. Rabe), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) |
2004-2009 |
Head of the Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group "Supramolecular Systems" (DFG) |
2008 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at Universität Bayreuth, D (declined) |
2009 | Offer of W3-Professorships at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D (accepted) and at Universität Jena, D (declined) |
since 09/2009 | Full Professor (W3), Institut f. Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D |
Research stays at other laboratories:
06/1996 |
XPS and UPS on organic molecules and organic/metal interfaces at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie Electronique (LISE) (Prof. Jean-Jacques Pireaux), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur (Belgium) |
09 - 10/1996 |
XPS and UPS experiments on organic/metal interfaces at LISE, Namur (Belgium) |
05 - 10/1998 |
Lehrstuhl für Physik Kondensierter Materie (Dr. Sigurd Schrader), Universität Potsdam (Germany) |
05 - 06/1999 |
Experiments on electronic properties and structure of doped conjugated systems, Department of Chemistry (Prof. Kazuhiko Seki), Nagoya University, Nagoya (Japan) |
08 - 09/1999 |
2-Photon-Photoemission spectroscopy on organic molecules at the Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung mbH (BESSY II), Berlin (Germany); in collaboration with Dr. Bernd Winter, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik u. Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin (Germany) |
03/2000 |
Low temperature UPS experiments on doped conjugated systems at the Institut de physique appliquée (Prof. Marco Grioni), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland) |
Additional Work Experience
08 – 09/1994 |
Installation and maintenance of Medical Imaging Systems, Division of Medical Instruments, Siemens AG, Klagenfurt (Austria) |
07 – 08/1995 |
Evaluation and upgrading of X-ray diffraction equipment for alloys at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
1999 – 2000 |
Staff Research Scientist at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, Joanneum Research GmbH, Weiz (Austria) |
since 2003 |
Member of the scientific advisory board for Aculon, Inc., San Diego, Ca. (USA) |
Memberships:
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
American Vacuum Society
Materials Research Society