M. Alexander Schneider
Prof. Dr. M. Alexander Schneider
Research Interests
Surface physics, structural and electronic properties of surfaces and adsorbates, magnetism, correlated electron systems, low-temperature physics.
Methods
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/STS) in ultra-high vacuum at low temperatures
Low-Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED) and Density-Functional-Theory (DFT) for surface structure determination.
Short CV
1997 PhD from the University of Göttingen, Germany
1997-1998 PostDoc at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
1999-2000 PostDoc at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2000-2006 Research Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
2006 Habilitation at the University of Konstanz, Germany
since 2006 Professor at the Chair of Solid State Physics, University of Erlangen, Germany