Curriculum vitae

apl. Prof. Dr. Hermann Nienhaus Experience and Education

1981 – 1988	Education in Physics, Mathematics and Economics at University of Münster (Germany) and University of Exeter (England) Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1988	Diploma thesis in Physics (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Münster) Title: Ladungsaustausch bei streifender Streuung von Ionen an Oberflächen (mit Auszeichnung)
1988 – 1990	Language course assistant at the Goethe-Institut Frankfurt am Main
1990 – 1994	Scientist at the Solid State Physics Lab., Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg (Germany)
1994	PhD-thesis in Experimental Physics (Duisburg) Title: Messungen der Dispersion von GaAs(110)- und InP(110)-Oberflächenphononen und Untersuchungen zur Wechselwirkung von XeF2 mit GaAs(110)-Oberflächen (mit Auszeichnung)
1995 – 2002	Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the Solid State Physics Lab., Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg
1997 – 1998	Feodor-Lynen scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Postdoc at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (Hosts: Prof. W.H. Weinberg and Prof. E.W. McFarland)
2000	Habilitation in Experimental Physics at the Gerhard-Mercator-Universität Duisburg Title: Electronic Excitations by Chemical Reactions on Metal Surfaces
2002	Venia legendi at the University of Essen (Germany)
2002 – 2007	Privat-Dozent at the Department of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen
2007 – today	apl. Professor at the Department of Physics
2000 – 2008	Various scientific visits at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
2009	Offer W3-Professorship at TU Ilmenau
2010	Distinct guest speaker at the University of Illinois/Chicago
2019 – today	Dean of studies

Awards and scholarships

1982 – 1988	Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
1995	Annual Prize of the Duisburger Universitätsgesellschaft
1997 – 1998	Feodor-Lynen-Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
2010	CME Distinguished Guest Speaker, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago