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Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Udo D. Schwarz
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Dr. Udo D. Schwarz
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University
Email: udo.schwarz@yale.edu
Phone: +1-203-432-7525
FAX: +1-203-432-6775
Administrative Associate to the Chair: Margaret Walker
Tel. +1-203-432-4223, Email: margaret.walker@yale.edu
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06520-8284
USA
Campus address (for visits and package delivery):
Becton Center, Rm. 205
15 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511-6816
USA
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Research Interests
My research interests are centered on the nanometer-scale mechanical, chemical, and physical properties of surfaces and interfaces. The main topics include:
- Fundamental study of force interactions at and between surfaces from the nanometer down to the atomic scale
- High-resolution investigations of surfaces and surface properties. Material classes include metals (in particular adsorption and reactivity studies of molecules on single-crytalline metallic model catalysts and the study of mechanical properties and structure of bulk metallic glasses at the nanometer and atomic scale), layered materials (such as bilayer 2D silica and layered topological insluators), complex oxides, chalcogenides, and ferroelectric materials
- Catalytic properties of materials
- Chemical imaging
- Probing of small-scale mechanical properties of materials
- Nanotribology, atomic mechanisms of friction
- Further development of scanning probe methods, in particular of vacuum-based high-resolution atomic force microscopy, ultrahigh vacuum low-temperature atomic force microscopy, friction force microscopy, and multi-dimensional & multi-channel imaging modes
More details may be found here.
Education
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1983-1993
- Ph.D. in Physics, 1993, Area of Specialization: Surface Physics. Research Advisor: Prof. Dr. H.-J. Güntherodt. Title of the Thesis: "Scanning Force Microscopy Applied to Photographic Materials".
- Diploma in Physics, 1989. Area of Specialization in the Diploma Thesis: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
Appointments
- Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, since July 2012
- Joint Appointment with Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University, since November 2010
- Full professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, since July 2009
- Associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, July 2002 - June 2009.
- Visiting Senior Scientist at the Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, May 2001 - June 2002 (group of Dr. Miquel Salmeron).
- Lecturer at the Microstructure Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany, fall 1999 - spring 2001.
- Staff scientist at the Microstructure Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany, fall 1993 - fall 1999 (within the research department of Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger).
- Postdoctoral research associate in the research group of Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger, Microstructure Research Center, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany, spring 1993 - fall 1993.
Awards and Honors
- Gaede Award 1999 (Principal Prize of the German Vacuum Society)
- German "Habilitation", September 1999
- Venia Legendi ("Privatdozent"), October 1999
- "Heisenberg" Fellowship from the German Research Society, 2000-2002
- Magister or Arts Privatim (honorary degree), Yale University, December 2009
Publications and Presentations
Citations and h-Index
- ISI Web of Science lists 157 of my publications, which have been cited 5100 times as of December 8, 2023.
- By the same date, Google Scholar lists over 7300 citations.
- My h-index was 42 (Web of Science) and 48 (Google Scholar), respectively.
Patents
- Liquid crystal cells for integrated optics and methods of their fabrication. European Patent No. 92120023.4-
- Udo D. Schwarz, Eric I. Altman, Hendrik Hölscher, and Omur Erdinc Dagdeviren. Tuned Oscillator Atomic Force Microscopy Methods and Apparatus. Patent filed December 21, 2015. International Application Number PCT/US15/67065. United States Patent Application No. US2019/0056428 A1, published February 21, 2019
Journals
- Associate Editor (until October 2018) and Advisory Editor (since October 2018) of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, an open-source, no-publishing-fee high-quality scientific journal
- Guest editor (with Hendrik Hölscher) for the proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM 2000), July 16-19, 2000, in Hamburg, Germany. Appeared in Applied Physics A 72, S1-S143 (2001).
- Guest editor for the proceedings of the 7th Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM 2004), September 12-15, 2004, in Seattle, WA, USA. Appeared in Nanotechnology 16 (3), S1-S137 (2005).
- Guest editor (with Ruben Perez and Ricardo Garcia) of a “Topical Issue on High-Resolution Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy”, which has been published in Nanotechnology 20 (26), 264001-264021 (2009).
- Guest editor (with Hendrik Hölscher) for the proceedings of the 12th Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM 2009), August 10-14, 2009, in New Haven, CT, USA, which have been published in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 28 (3), C4a1-C4E47 (2010).
- Editor of a special issue on "Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy", which has been published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology in June 2012.
- Editor (with Thilo Glatzel, Hendrik Hölscher, Thomas Schimmel, Mehmet Z. Baykara, and Ricardo Garcia) of a Special Issue on “Advances Atomic Force Microsopy Techniques”, which has been published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology in 2013.
- Editor (with Mehmet Z. Baykara) of a Themitic Series on “Noncontact Atomic Force Microsopy II”, which has been published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology in 2014.
- Editor (with Mehmet Z. Baykara) of a Thematic Series on “Noncontact Atomic Force Microsopy III”, which has been published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology in June 2016.
- Editor (with Thilo Glatzel, Mehmet Z. Baykara, Ricardo Garcia, and Thomas Schimmel) of a Thematic Series on "Advanced Atomic Force Microscopy", which will be published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology in 2017.
Conferences
- Steering committee member of the Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM) Conference Series (since 2003).
- 2022 Program committee member of the 29th International Colloquium on Scanning Probe Microscopy (ICSPM29), held in conjunction with the 22nd Triennual International Vacuum Conference (IVC-22) organized by the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA) in Sapporo, Japan, September 11-16, 2022.
- 2018 Member of the International Advisory Board for the 14th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference (NanoTR-14), which was held September 22-25, 2018, in Izmir, Turkey
- 2015 Co-organizer (with Igor Sokolov, Tufts University, Boston; Lukas Eng, Technical University Dresden, Germany; and Rober Ros, Arizona State University) of the Symposium “Frontiers in Scanning Probe Microscopy” at the 2015 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston (November 29 – December 4, 2015).
- 2014 Member of the Programming Committee of the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICN+T 2014), July 20-25, 2014, in Vail, CO.
- 2014 Member of the International Advisory Board for the “Materials Solutions for High Demanding Tribological Applications” Symposium at the 13th International Ceramics Congress (CIMTEC 2014) and the 6th Forum on New Materials, which will be held June 8-13, 2014, in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy.
- 2013 Program Chair for the sessions of the Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division of the AVS at the society’s 60th International Symposium and Exhibition (AVS 2013), which was held October 27-Nov 1, 2013, in Long Beach, CA.
- 2009 Chairman and organizer of the 12th Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM 2009), which has been held in August 2009 in New Haven.
- 2009 Co-organizer (with Ruben Perez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Seizo Morita, Osaka University, and Suzi Jarvis, University College Dublin) of the Symposium “Dynamic Scanning Probes: Imaging, Characterization, and Manipulation” at the 2009 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston.
- 2006 Co-organizer (with George Hentschel, Emroy University, and Yue Qi, GM Research) of the Friction, Fracture, and Deformation Symposium at the 2006 March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore.
- 2006 Member International Organizing Committee (with A. Raman and R. García) of the “Frontiers of Scanning Probe Microscopy” Conference in West Lafayette, IN, USA.
- 2004 Co-organizer (with Prof. Eric Altman, Yale University) of the surface science symposium at the 78th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium.
- Program committee member of the 7th Conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM 2004), September 12-15, 2004, in Seattle, WA, USA.
- Chair of numerous sessions at various conferences.
Professional Memberships
Board member (2008-2010), Chair-elect (2010-2011), Chair (2011-2012), and Programming Chair (2012-2013) of the Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division of the American Vacuum Society. In addition, I am member of the following professional organisations:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- American Vacuum Society (AVS)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Materials Research Society(MRS)
- The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
General Activities
I acted as referee for the following organizations/institutions:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Department of Defense (DoD)
- Department of Energy (DoE)
- Petroleum Research Funds of the American Chemical Society (PRF/ACS)
- U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation
- Center for Nanophase Materials Science at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- German Research Society (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
- Volkswagen Foundation, Germany
- Austrian Fund for the Promotion of Sciences (Österreichischer Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaften)
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
- Academy of Finland
- Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Research Council UK, United Kingdom
- European Research Council (European Union)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
as well as for the following journals:
- ACS Nano
- Advanced Materials
- Applied Mechanics
- Applied Physics A
- Applied Physics Letters
- Applied Surface Science
- Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
- Chemical Reviews
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Journal of Chemical Physics
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
- Journal of Microscopy
- Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
- Journal of Physical Chemistry
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
- Langmuir
- Materials Today
- Measurement Science & Technology
- Nano Letters
- Nanotechnology
- Nature
- Nature Communications
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Nature Physics
- Physical Review B
- Physical Review Letters
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Science
- Scientific Reports
- Small
- Surface and Coatings Technology
- Surface and Interface Analysis
- Surface Science
- Tribology Letters
- Ultramicroscopy
In addition: Review of diploma and Ph. D. theses (Yale and international).
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