The purpose of the” Tenure Track Professorship “program of the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft is to help German universities select worldwide scholars who have actually currently worked abroad for several years. Matthias Grotevent earned his doctoral degree at ETH Zurich and Empa, a Swiss research institute. He was then a postdoctoral scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S., where he was a member of the group led by Moungi G. Bawendi, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Before joining TU Dortmund University, he was Research study Director for an American start-up that produces flexible solar panels.
In his work, he takes an interdisciplinary method that combines standard research in products development with practical applications and partnership with commercial partners. He highlighted this during his inaugural lecture at the Physics Colloquium at the start of July. “I studied chemistry, performed physics research study and am now working as a materials researcher with an engineer’s state of mind,” stated Grotevent.
Miniaturized Spectrometer and Versatile Solar Battery
His research centers on nanomaterials whose residential or commercial properties can be gotten used to specific requirements, which enables them to absorb or send light particularly efficiently and makes them ideal for new optoelectronics applications. One benefit is that these materials can be processed from a liquid state. This substantially streamlines production and could make brand-new technologies cheaper and more available. One example is miniaturized infrared spectrometers, which could end up being so small with the assistance of these products that in the future they might fit inside a mobile phone. They might assist detect pesticide residues in food, for example, or monitor blood sugar levels without needing to take a blood sample.