Members of the Institute for Materials Science

Head of Institute

Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Doru C. Lupascu doru.lupascu[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H28 Tel: +49 (0)201 183-2737 Fax: +49 (0)201 183-3968
Administrative management: Dr.-Ing. Tommy Mielke tommy.mielke[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H39 +49 (0)201 183-2698	Scientific management: Apl Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Vladimir Shvartsman vladimir.shvartsman[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H30 +49 (0)201 183-3791

Secretary Office

M.A. Marcus von der Heydt
V17 R02 H33
marcus.vonerheydt[at]uni-due.de
Tel: +49 (0)201 183-2689
Fax: +49 (0)201 183-3968

Promotionsausschuss (ab Juni 2024)

promotionsausschuss-bauwi[at]uni-due.de

Scientists / PhD Students

Dr. rer. nat. Miriana Vadala miriana.vadala[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H36 +49 (0)201 183-4595	Dr. rer. nat. Marianela Escobar marianela.escobar[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 L14 +49 (0)201 183-2735
Dr. Juliana Heiniger-Schell juliana.schell[at]cern.ch Inst. f. Materialwissensch., c/o ISOLDE - CERN (Genf) +41 22 767 2654	Dr. rer. nat. Astita Dubey astita.dubey[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H49 +49 (0)201 183-3910
M.Sc. Witchaya Arpavarte witchaya.arpavate[at]stud.uni-due.de V17 R02 H42 +49 (0)201 183-3051	M.Sc. Young Un Jin young.jin[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H42 +49 (0)201 183-3017
M.Sc. Amirhosein Paryab amirhosein.paryab[at]uni-due.de V15 R02 G24 +49 (0)201 183-2606	Hannah Unruh hannah.unruh[at]stud.uni-due.de V15 R02 G24 +49 (0)201 183-2606
M.Sc. Shaista Tahir shaista.tahir[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 H49 +49 (0)201 183-4462	M.Sc. Daniil Lewin daniil.lewin[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 L23 +49 (0)201 183-3019
M.Sc. Thien Thanh Dang thien.dang[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 L23 +49 (0)201 183-3019	M.Sc. Susanne Helmich susanne.helmich[at]uni-due.de V15 R02 G19 +49 (0)201 183-2504
M.Sc. Neshable Noel neshable.noel[at]uni-due.de V15 R02 G19 +49 (0)201 183-3017	M.Sc. Ian Chang Jie Yap ian.yap[at]cern.ch V15 R01 L23 +49 (0)201 183-3019
M.Sc. Hassan Esmaili hassan.Esmaili[at]stud.uni-due.de V15 R01 L14 +49 (0)201 183-2740	M.Sc. Chithra Kandappanthodi Chithra Kandappanthodi[at]uni-due.de V17 R02 H45 +49 (0)201 183-3910
M.Sc. Edgar Reis Edgar.Reis[at]cern.ch	M.Sc. Pleurat Kicmari pleurat.kicmari[at]stud.uni-due.de
M.Sc. Sobhan Mohammadi-Fathabad sobhan.mohammadi-fathabad[at]uni-due.de

Technical Assistants

Christoph Ochsendorf christoph.ochsendorf[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 L08 +49 (0)201 183-2728	Stefan Nawrath stefan.nawrath[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 L08 +49 (0)201 183-2741
Andreas Schmidt andreas.schmidt[at]uni-due.de V15 R01 L08 +49 (0)201 183-2728	M.Sc. Merlin Schmuck merlin.schmuck[at]uni-due.de V15 S01 L08 +49 (0)201 183-2741

External Lecturers

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<a href="https://www.uni-due.de/person/51716">Dr. rer. nat. Miriana Vadala</a> 
<a href="mailto:miriana.vadala@uni-due.de" title="mailto:miriana.vadala@uni-due.de">miriana.vadala[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V17 R02 H36 
+49 (0)201 183-4595
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Dr. rer. nat. Marianela Escobar 
<a href="mailto:marianela.escobar@uni-due.de" title="mailto:marianela.escobar@uni-due.de">marianela.escobar[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R01 L14 
+49 (0)201 183-2735
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Dr. Juliana Heiniger-Schell 
<a href="mailto:juliana.schell@cern.ch" title="mailto:juliana.schell@cern.ch">juliana.schell[at]cern.ch</a> 
Inst. f. Materialwissensch., c/o ISOLDE - CERN (Genf) 
+41 22 767 2654
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<a href="https://www.uni-due.de/person/60101">Dr. rer. nat. Astita Dubey</a> 
<a href="mailto:astita.dubey@uni-due.de" title="mailto:astita.dubey@uni-due.de">astita.dubey[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V17 R02 H49 
+49 (0)201 183-3910
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M.Sc. Witchaya Arpavarte 
<a href="mailto:witchaya.arpavate@stud.uni-due.de" style="background-color: rgb(223, 228, 242);">witchaya.arpavate[at]stud.uni-due.de</a> 
V17 R02 H42 
+49 (0)201 183-3051
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M.Sc. Young Un Jin 
<a href="mailto:young.jin@uni-due.de" style="background-color: rgb(223, 228, 242);" title="mailto:young.jin@uni-due.de">young.jin[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V17 R02 H42 
+49 (0)201 183-3017
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M.Sc. Amirhosein Paryab 
<a href="mailto:amirhosein.paryab@uni-due.de">amirhosein.paryab[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R02 G24 
+49 (0)201 183-2606
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Hannah Unruh 
<a href="mailto:hannah.unruh@uni-due.de">hannah.unruh[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R02 G24 
+49 (0)201 183-2606
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M.Sc. Shaista Tahir 
<a href="mailto:shaista.tahir@uni-due.de">shaista.tahir[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R01 H49 
+49 (0)201 183-4462
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M.Sc. Daniil Lewin 
<a href="mailto:daniil.lewin@uni-due.de">daniil.lewin[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R01 L23 
+49 (0)201 183-3019
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M.Sc. Thien Thanh Dang 
<a href="mailto:thien.dang@uni-due.de">thien.dang[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R01 L23 
+49 (0)201 183-3019</td>
<td style="background-color: #dfe4f2; width: 350px;">M.Sc. Susanne Helmich 
<a href="mailto:susanne.helmich@uni-due.de">susanne.helmich[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R02 G19 
+49 (0)201 183-2504</td>
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M.Sc. Neshable Noel 
<a href="mailto:neshable.noel@uni-due.de">neshable.noel[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R02 G19 
+49 (0)201 183-3017</td>
<td style="background-color: #dfe4f2; width: 350px;">M.Sc. Ian Chang Jie Yap 
<a href="mailto:ian.yap@cern.ch">ian.yap[at]cern.ch</a> 
V15 R01 L23 
+49 (0)201 183-3019</td>
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M.Sc. Hassan Esmaili 
<a href="mailto:hassan.Esmaili@stud.uni-due.de" style="background-color: rgb(223, 228, 242);">hassan.Esmaili[at]stud.uni-due.de</a> 
V15 R01 L14 
+49 (0)201 183-2740</td>
<td style="background-color: #dfe4f2; width: 350px;">M.Sc. Chithra Kandappanthodi 
<a href="mailto:chithra.kandappanthodi@uni-due.de" style="background-color: rgb(223, 228, 242);">Chithra Kandappanthodi[at]uni-due.de</a> 
V17 R02 H45 
+49 (0)201 183-3910</td>
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<td style="background-color: #dfe4f2;">M.Sc. Edgar Reis 
<a href="mailto:Edgar.Reis@cern.ch">Edgar.Reis[at]cern.ch</a></td>
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M.Sc. Pleurat Kicmari 
<a href="mailto:pleurat.kicmari@stud.uni-due.de">pleurat.kicmari[at]stud.uni-due.de</a>
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M.Sc. Sobhan Mohammadi-Fathabad 
<a href="mailto:sobhan.mohammadi-fathabad@uni-due.de" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 179); background-color: rgb(223, 228, 242);">sobhan.mohammadi-fathabad[at]uni-due.de</a>
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Former Group Members

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr.-Ing. habil. Max Setzer	Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Dillmann
Dr.-Ing. Ivanka Bevanda	Dipl.-Ing. Miriam Engel
Dipl.-Ing.Moien Rezvani	Dieter Penzler
Dr.-Ing. Susanne Palecki	Dr. Gabriel Constantinescu
Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Lackner	Marc Borbe
Patrick Dubray	Alfred Gäbel
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Fettkenhauer	Dipl.-Phys. Ahmadshah Nazrabi
Dr. rer. nat. Irina Anusca	Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Menze
Dr.-Ing. Hans-Joachim Keck	Sabine Kriegel

Former PhD Students

Doktorand	Dissertationsthema
Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Lackner	"Carbon Nanotubes in Organic Solar Cells"
Dr.-Ing. Danka Dittmer-Gobeljic	"Polar Microstructure and Nanoscale Electromechanical Behavior of Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics"
Dr.-Ing. Morad Etier	"Preparation and Magnetoelctric Effect of Multiferroic Cobalt Ferrite-Barium Titanate Composites"
Dr. rer. nat. Yanling Gao	"Synthesis of Core-Shell High-k Nanoparticles"
Dr.-Ing. Hugues-Yanis Amanieu	"Nanomechanics of Li-ion Battery Materials"
Dr. rer. nat. Harshkumar Bhadreshkumar Trivedi	"Mapping Local Manifestations of the Strain Mediated Magnetoelectric Effect in Composites"
Dr.-Ing. Mehmet Sanlialp	"Elektrokalorischer Effekt in bleifreien Relaxorkeramiken"
Dr. rer. nat. Muhammad Naveed Ul-haq	"Magnetoelectric Effect in Lead-Free Multiferroic Composites and Thin Films"
Dr. Maryam Khazaee	“Materials for Halide-Based Thin Film Solar Cells”
Dr.-Ing. Kevin Voges	„Herstellung von Wärmedämmstoffen aus Polyvinylalkohol-Kompositen mittels Freeze Casting“
Dr. rer. nat. Christian Hübner	"Anorganische Nanopartikel in Polymeren zur Modifikation der Wärmeleitung"
Dr. rer. nat. Martina Pantaler	"Lead-free absorber materials for solar cell applications"
Dr.-Ing. Domenic Ganter	"Mikromechanische Eigenschaften von Bitumen bei der Verwendung ausgewählter Rejuvenatoren"
Dr.-Ing. Amjad Farooq	"Photo Stability of Perovskite Solare Cellos"
Dr.-Ing. Yusra Hambal	„Electrocaloric Effect & Electrical Energy Storage in Ferroelectric Relaxor Polymer & its Nanocomposites “
Dr.-Ing. Nicole Bartek	"Effect of Synthesis Conditions on the Properties of Lead Iron Niobate Ceramics and Thin Films: Possible candidate for Photovoltaic Devices?"
Dr. rer. nat Astita Dubey	"The Multifunctional Potential of Bismuth Ferrite Nanoparticles"
Dr.-Ing. Felix Paul	"Mecanical Properties of Antarctic Sea Ice"
Dr.-Ing. Gustave Semugaza	"Reactivation of hydrated cement and recycled concrete powders by thermal treatment for partial replacement of virgin cement"
Dr. rer. nat. Ahmadshah Shahob Nazrabi	"Development of a modular multi-field mechanical setup for the investigation of magnetoelectric materials"
Eva Kröll
Andrei Karabanov	"Hybrid perovskite crystals for photovoltaics"

Guests

2025

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Ronaldo Crosiogennari	Brasilien	Februar-Juni
Nouhaila Ait Zerraf		Juni-September
Dr. Boris Slautin	Russland	July 2024 -Septemer

2019

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Prof. Dr. Qiming Zhang	Pennsylvania State University, USA	Juni-Juli
Prof. Dr. Subhankar Bedanta	National Institute of Science Education and Research NISER, Bhubaneswar, Indien	Juni
Prof. Dr. Hana Uršič Nemevšek Mr. Uroš Prah	Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia	April

2018

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Dr. Oleksii Fedorchenko	ILTPE - B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine	November-Dezember
Dr. Olga Yuzephovich	B. I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukriane	November-Dezember
Dr. Prasanta Kumar Panda Dr. Benudhar Sahoo	CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru, Indien	November
Mr. Igor Pariy	National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia	September
Dr. Uladzimir Laletsin Dr. Natal’ja Poddubnaya	Institute of Technical Acoustics of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Vitebsk, Belarus	Mai-Juni
Aliona Stanchyk Dr. Yuriy Radyush Dr. Anatoli Pushkarou	Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus	April-Juni
Prof. Dr. Yurii Pashkevich Dr. Olga Yuzephovich	B. I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukriane	März

2017

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Dr. Abolghasem Nourmohammadi	Department of Nanotechnology, University of Isfahan (Iran)	June - September

2016

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Dr. Abolghasem Nourmohammadi	Department of Nanotechnology, University of Isfahan (Iran)	November - Januar
Dr. Benudhar Sahoo	CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories (Indien)	Juni - August

2015

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Dr. Prasanta Kumar Panda	CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories (Indien)	Juni - Juli
Dr. Alexey Fedorchenko	B.Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)	April - August
Leonard Frederic Henrichs	Institute for Materials Research, University of Leeds (England)	Januar - Dezember

2014

Name	Herkunft	Zeitraum
Leonard Frederic Henrichs	Institute for Materials Research, University of Leeds (England)	September - Dezember
Dr. Natalia Andreeva	St. Petersburg Polytechnical University (Russland)	September - November
Prof. Dr. Alexandr Solnyshkin	Tver' State University (Russland)	August - Oktober

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