Sunday, September 9, 2018
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Auditorium between Bldg. 4&5, Level 0, Room 0215
The molecular fine structure in electrical double layers revealed by the extended Surface Forces Apparatus (Zachariah, R.M. Espinosa-Marzal, N.D. Spencer, M. Heuberger)
Presented by Prof. Manfred Heuberger, Director of Advanced Fibres at the research institute Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa
Biography
Born in 1965, Manfred Heuberger has studied experimental physics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He finished his studies in 1991 with the diploma in the area of XPS on metal/polymer systems and earned his Ph.D. in 1994 in the area of surface physics using AFM and STM. For this thesis he was awarded the Swiss Omega Prize in 1995. With two fellowships from the Swiss National Founds he worked as post doc at the University of Santa Barbara, California, from 1995 to 1997. There, he used the surface forces apparatus (SFA) to study molecular friction on polymers and other surfaces. At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) he setup the extended SFA laboratory starting 1997 and directed research activities in the field of surface forces; since 2002 he has multiple teaching assignments at the ETH Zürich where he was appointed titular professor in 2010.
In 2005 he was appointed head of the laboratory for Advanced Fibers at the EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, where he conducts a combination of fundamental and applied research with a focus on advanced fibers and aqueous interfaces aiming at new properties and applications.
