Frank Balzer
Faculty of Engineering, Departement of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Bismarckstr. 81, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Web: www.uni-due.de/wet
Email: frank.balzer at uni-due.de
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Education
01/21/2009 Habilitation in Experimental Physics at Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. Topic: “Organic Nanoaggregates”
01/27/1998 Ph.D. in physics, University of Göttingen, Germany. Topic: “Linear and nonlinear optics at alkali island films”.
02/05/1994 Diploma in physics, University of Göttingen, Germany. Topic: “Time resolved investigations of laser induced processes near surfaces”.
Employment
Since 04/2012 Teaching Assignment, Europa-Universität Flensburg
Since 02/2024 Lecturer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
05/2007 – 11/2023 Associate Professor, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark; Laser Safety Officer since 2010
08/2006 – 04/2007 Fellow of the "Hanse Institute for Advanced Study", Delmenhorst, Germany
08/2001 – 08/2006 Research assistant, Physics Department, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
06/2000 – 07/2001 Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
06/1998 – 05/2000 Postdoctoral research associate, Chemistry Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
03/1994 – 05/1998 Research assistant, MPI for Fluid Dynamics, Göttingen, Germany
Research Experience
Since 2007 self-organized growth of nanowires from organic semiconductors, polarized optical properties of organic nanoaggregates; scanning probe microscopy; metallic nanoparticles in food; graphene as electrode material for organic electronics, H- and J-aggregates, Mueller-matrix ellipsometry
2001 – 2006 ion scattering from metallic alloys, AFM and spectroscopy on organic nanowires, research group 463 – “Innovative pharmaceuticals and carrier systems”
2000 – 2001 organic nanowires on dielectric surfaces
1998 – 2000 molecule surface scattering, resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization, catalytic reactions on surfaces
09/1995 Chemistry Department, Yale University, Yale, USA: degenerate four-wave mixing at surfaces
1994 – 1998 linear and nonlinear optics of alkali clusters, laser materials treatment, photodesorption, self-assembled monolayers, heat transfer along surfaces
1988 – 1994 study of physics, University of Göttingen, Germany
Present Scientific Focus Areas
- structure and epitaxial growth of small-molecule organic thin films, characterization with diffraction and scanning probe microscopy techniques
- organic nanoaggregates
- light-soft matter interactions including circular dichroism
- solid/liquid interfaces: degeneration on the micro- and nanoscopic scale
- organic bionic photosensors