Thomas Pichler

Thomas Pichler is since 2008 Full Professor of “Quantum & Solid State Physics” at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna. He is an EU Marie Curie Fellow and an APART Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he received the Fritz Kohlrausch physics award of the Austrian Physical Society. He is PhD Study Dean in Physics since 2014, heading more than 200 PhD Committees. Since 2016 he is also deputy leader of the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, University of Vienna.

His contribution encompasses aspects of nanophysics, nanochemistry chemistry and material science pioneering materials design of low dimensional quantum solids with special emphasis on the low dimensional forms of carbon (fullerenes, graphene, carbyne and carbon nanotubes). This includes an investigation of the fundamental electronic transport and optical properties by advanced optical and electron spectroscopy. He has published over 400 scientific articles with more than 19000 citations.