Richard A. Wilhelm

Head of the Atomic and Plasma Physics Group
Institut für Angewandte Physik, TU Wien
Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/134, A-1040 Wien, Austria

• Phone: +43 1 58801 - 13435 (office)
  
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• Ion Beam Physics: Physics of highly charged ions, atomic (ion–atom, ion–molecule) collisions, “hollow” atom formation and decay, Ion-solid interaction, Slow ions, Stopping force, Charge exchange, Ion-plasma interaction

• Surface Physics: Basic ion-surface interaction processes (electron emission, nanostructure formation), AFM/STM studies of ion-induced surface nanostructures, Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM)

• Curriculum Vitae

• 07/2024-now: Full Professor of Ion Physics at IAP, TU Wien
• 2023 - 2024: Associate Professor at IAP, TU Wien
• 03/2023 Habilitation in “Experimental Physics”
• 2019 - 2023: Assistant Professor at IAP, TU Wien
• 2016 - 11/2020: Research Associate (part time) at HZDR (Germany)
• 2017 - 2019: University Assistant at IAP, TU Wien
• 04/2016 - 11/2016: PostDoc at IAP, TU Wien
• 2014 - 2016: PostDoc at HZDR (Germany)
• 2011 - 2014: PhD student at HZDR and TU Dresden (Germany)
• 2005 - 2010: Studies of physics (diploma) at TU Dresden (Germany)

• 47 Publications in ISI-listed international peer-reviewed journals (among them 5 Phys. Rev. Lett., 1 Nat. Commun., 1 2D Materials, 1 Appl. Phys. Lett).

• Full list of publications; Publications and Talks since 2009 (list generated automatically from the data base of TU Wien (incomplete before 2018))

• 12 invited talks (13 invitations in total) at international conferences

• ResearcherID E-6939-2011:
  • h-index: 11
  • Total number of citations: 445 citations

• ORCID 0000-0001-9451-5440

• GoogleScholar:
  • h-index: 16
  • Total number of citations: 752 citations
  • Total number of items with more than 10 citations (i-10 index): 21

• Erdős number: 7

• Patents
  • Granted:
    • Ionenmikroskopievorrichtung: German Patent and Trade Mark Office, No. 10 2016 112 328
    • Vorrichtung und Verfahren zum Erzeugen von Ionenpulsen: German Patent and Trade Mark Office, No. 10 2017 218 456
  • Pending:
    • 1 Patent at German Patent and Trade Mark Office

• Lehrveranstaltungen im TISS
  • 134.141 Projektarbeit Ionenphysik zusammen mit Prof. F. Aumayr, 8 SWS, 10 ECTS
  • 134.172 Vorlesung Ionen-Festkörper-Wechselwirkungen, 2 SWS, 3 ECTS, WS20/21 Di. 10:00-12:00 Sem.R. DB gelb 05 A
  • 134.125 Grundlagenphysik III, Übungen, 2 SWS, 3 ECTS
  • 130.003 Grundlagenphysik IIa, Übungen, 4 SWS, 6 ECTS
  • 130.004 Grundlagenphysik IIb, Übungen, 4 SWS, 6 ECTS
  • 130.001 Grundlagenphysik Ia, Übungen, 4 SWS, 6 ECTS
  • 130.002 Grundlagenphysik Ib, Übungen, 4 SWS, 6 ECTS
  • 134.126 Laborübungen III, 5 SWS, 5 ECTS, SS18

• 2020 - now: Member of the International Advisory Board for the International Conference on Elementary Processes in Atomic Systems (CEPAS)
• 2018 - now: Member of the Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft (ÖPG)
• 2005 - now: Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)

• Gaede Prize 2021 of the German Physical Society
  • Prize for scientific work in the field of surface science

• Max Auwärter Award 2020 of the Max Auwärter Foundation, Liechtenstein
  • Prize for scientific work in the fields of surface science, interface physics, as well as anorganic and organic thin films

• Grant for Scientific Exchange (Wissenschaftlich-Technische-Zusammenarbeit) of the OeAD
  • Bilateral project and travel grant between TU Wien and the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Zagreb, Croatia, 2020-2022

• START Prize 2019 of FWF
  • Research grant on development and application of time-resolved ion scattering, 2019-2025

• Innovative Project - Funding of Staff (TU Wien)
  • Research grant funded by TU Wien on interaction of ions with freestanding 2D materials, 2019-2022

• Best Lecture Award 2019 at the Faculty of Physics of TU Wien
  • For the contribution to the course Fundamentals of Physics Ia and Ib. Shared among the teaching team for the course

• Grant for Scientific Exchange (Wissenschafts- und Erziehungskooperation) of the Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn (AÖU) 2018
  • Bilateral project and travel grant between TU Wien (IAP and ITP) and the Institute for Nuclear Research, ATOMKI, Drebrecen, Hungary

• IBMM Prize 2018 for outstanding contributions to the field of ion beam materials modification
  • Biannual prize for young scientists in the field of ion beam physics, awarded during the IBMM2018 conference, San Antonio, TX, USA

• Research Grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  • Standalone project on highly charged ion interaction with 2D materials, 2017-2020

• Research Award 2014 of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
  • Für die Untersuchungen zur Wechselwirkung langsamer, hochgeladener Ionen mit Ionenkristalloberflächen und Nanomembranen