Friedrich Aumayr

Professor em. of Ion- and Plasma Physics
1. Jan. 2016 - 29. Feb. 2024 Director of Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
1. Jan. 1990 - 30. Sep. 2023 Head of the Atomic and Plasma Physics Research Group at IAP, TU Wien
Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Wien
(Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology)
Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/134, 1040 Wien/Vienna, Austria

Director of the Austrian Fusion Research Program Fusion@ÖAW
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Member of the Governing Board of “The European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy Fusion for Energy (F4E)”

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• Ion Physics: Physics of highly charged ions, atomic (ion–atom, ion–molecule) collisions (experiments and AOCC calculations), “hollow” atom formation and decay

• Plasma Physics: Fusion plasmas, plasma-wall-interaction, plasma diagnostics and modelling, atomic data for fusion, ECR ion sources, X-ray Lasers

• Surface Physics: Basic ion - surface interaction processes (electron emission, sputtering, nanostructure formation), capillary guiding of ion beams, AFM/STM studies of ion-induced surface nanostructures

• Other Interests: Popularization of science

• Curriculum Vitae

• List of Publications

• more than 335 Publications in ISI-listed intern. refereed Journals (among them 23 Phys. Rev. Lett., 1 Nature Comm., 1 ACS Nano, 1 Commun. Earth Environ., 1 J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 1 Astrophys. J., 2 Appl. Phys. Lett., 1 Nano Letters, etc.).

• Web of Science Citation report (status 07.10.2025): h-index: 48, 8404 citations (5641 without self citations)

• Scholar Google profile (status 25.10.2025): h-index: 60; i10-index: 247; 12490 citations

• Scopus Author ID: 7005607254 (status 07.10.2025): h-index: 48; 8404 citations

• ResearcherID (Publon): GRS-7818-2022 (up-to-date ISI-statistics, including citations and Hirsch-index)

• ORCID 0000-0002-9788-0934

• Erdős number: 6
  

• List of current courses and lectures

• More than 85 invited talks at intern. Conferences

• Best Teacher Award 2020 of the faculty of physics TU Wien

• Best Lecture Award 2019 of the faculty of physics TU Wien for the compulsory course on “Fundamentals of Physics Ia & Ib (Grundlagen der Physik Ia & Ib)

• Best Lecture Award 2018 of the faculty of physics TU Wien for the compulsory course on “Fundamentals of Physics III (Grundlagen der Physik III)

• Best Lecture Award 2017 of the faculty of physics TU Wien for the compulsory course on “Fundamentals of Physics I (Grundlagen der Physik I)