Ute Kolb - Curriculum Vitae#
In the course of her scientific work, Ute Kolb has used a wide range of different diffraction methods and imaging techniques as well as spectroscopic and computational approaches to investigate structural aspects and their impact on physical properties of inorganic and organic materials.
Starting in 1997, she worked on the development of an efficient, reliable and straightforward method for structure analysis of nano-crystals. In 2007, she initiated and developed the automated electron diffraction tomography (ADT) technique, which allowed the first ab-initio crystal structure solution of a nano-crystal to be published. Nowadays, the use of electron diffraction tomography (EDT) has become a very widely used and popular approach, which has been applied to solve the crystal structures of a large variety of materials as well as to successfully tackle challenging crystallographic problems.
University Training:
- 1982 - 1989 Studies in Chemistry (Kaiserslautern and Mainz)
- 1989 Awarded Diploma in Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hans Sillescu)
Advanced Academic Qualifications:
- Habilitation: Inorganic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2015 (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tremel)
- Dissertation: Inorganic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 1994 (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Martin Dräger)
Professional Career:
- 2017 - present Professor in Electron Crystallography, Technical University Darmstadt
- 2012 - 2014 KIVA-Professor in Electron Crystallography, Technical University Darmstadt
- 2014 - present Academic Director, Head of the Centre for High Resolution Electron Microscopy (EMZM), University Mainz
- 2009 - 2014 Academic Oberrätin, Head of the Centre for High Resolution Electron Microscopy (EMZM), University Mainz
- 2004 - 2009 Academic Rätin, Head of the Centre for High Resolution Electron Microscopy (EMZM), University Mainz
- 1998 - 2004 Habilitation (C1), Physical Chemistry, University Mainz
- 1994 - 1998 Postdoctoral Researcher, Physical Chemistry, University Mainz
- 1989 - 1994 PhD student, Inorganic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
