Max Wolff

Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Physics

Email:
max.wolff[AT-sign]physics.uu.se
Telephone:
+4618-471 3590
Visiting address:
Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1

Postal address:
Box 516
751 20 UPPSALA
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In my research I apply neutron scattering methods to current challenges in material science. The goal is to relate macroscopic emergence to the structure and dynamics on molecular length scales. The focus is on soft mater, in particular complex liquids and their viscoelastic properties, as well as on magnetic and energy materials. In order to enable new research directions I am driving neutron instrument and method developments.

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Keywords: neutron scattering energy materials magnetism surface science soft matter

Experience:

  • Professor, Material Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden — 2020-Present
  • Lecturer/Assoc. Professor, Material Physics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden — 2009-2020
  • Group leader, Chair for Experimental Physics IV/Solid State Physics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany — 2004-2009
  • Permanently placed at the Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
  • Scientist, Chair for Crystallography and Structural Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany — 2002-2004
  • Permanently placed at the Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
  • Scientist, Chair for Crystallography and Structural Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany — 1999-2002
  • Research Assistant, Eupec, Pretzfeld, Germany — 1999
  • Teaching Assistant, Chair for Optics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany — 1998

Education:

  • Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden — Docent, 2010
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany — PhD, 2004
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany — Dipl. Phys., 1999

In my research I am interested to connect macroscopic emergence, materials properties, to their building blocks on the atomistic scale, structure and dynamics on nm length scales. The focus on the research areas listed below:

Soft matter

  • Solid - Liquid interface
  • Self organisation
  • Rheology
  • Surface coatings
  • Dynamics

Magnetism

  • Thin films and superlattices
  • Nanoparticles

Hydrogen in metals

  • Thin films and superlattices
  • Phase transitions
  • Diffusion

Scattering techniques and instrumentation

  • Polarised neutron scattering
  • Grazing incident scattering
  • Quasielastic scattering

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