International members

Prof. Dr. Patrik Schmuki

Patrik Schmuki is one of SCCS group members, he was born in 1960 in Winterthur, Switzerland, studied physical chemistry at the University of Basel (M. Sc., 1988), and carried out his graduate studies “Semiconductive properties of passive films” at ETH-Zürich (Ph. D. degree in 1992). After an employment as Assistant at ETHZ (1992-1994) he worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, USA, using synchrotron techniques for thin film studies (1994-95). In 1997 he was elected Maitre d´Enseignement et de Recherche (Associate Professor) for Microstructuring Materials at the Department of Materials Science of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne). He joined the group in 2013- until now.

Main Awards and Honors:

1992       ETH medal for the PhD Thesis

1995     Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Researchers

1997       Swiss National Science Foundation PROFIL Fellowship

2002       Porous Semiconductor PSST-MRHY - Award

2003, 2004   Invited visiting Professorship, University of Burgundy, Dijon (F), Fall

2005       H.H. Uhlig Award of the NACE - International, USA

2008       Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, USA

2008       Volta Award of the Electrochemical Society, USA

2010       Reinhart Koselleck grant (German Research Foundation)

2011       H.H. Uhlig Award of the Electrochemical Society, USA

2012       Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

2013      ERC - Grant for Advanced Researchers

2013       Honorary Professor for Physical Chemistry at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

2013       Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry