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| University of Western Ontario | Office hours: Mo-Fr 9:00 am - 5:00 pm | |
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Welcome to the homepage of Dr. Silvia Mittler.
I am a phycicist by training at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
My diploma thesis work was conducted in the group of Prof. Paul Leiderer in the
Department of Physics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University on " The Investigation
of the Phase Transition between Amorphous and Crystalline Tetracene by Raman Spectroscopy"
in 1986.
For my PhD I joined the group of
Prof. Wolfgang Knoll at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz and graduated in 1989 with a biophysical
topic: "Charge Induced Phase Separation in Black Lipid Membranes".
In 1990 I became a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. George Stegeman at the Optical Sciences Center of the University
of Arizona and at CREOL of the University of Central Florida. My research interests during this
period were polymeric waveguide devices for nonlinear optical application and spectroscopy.
In 1993 I returned to the Max-Planck
Institute for Polymer Research to built up the integrated optics group.
The linear optical characterization of nonlinear optical materials for
waveguide application was one aim within the project. New waveguide devices
and concepts for sensor application including chemical active sensing
layers immobilized on top of the waveguide devices were in the center of
interest as well as metal nano particles. Optical techniques, XPS, AFM and spontaneous
desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry were frequently used for the
analysis of surface functionalizations. Methods for
the independent determination of the refractive index and the geometrical
thickness of ultrathin films were developed.
In 2000 I conducted my "Habilitation"
in the Physical Chemistry Department of the Johannes-Gutenberg University
in Mainz and gave birth to twin boys. My partner is a mineralogist and actively involved in research too.
Since September 2003 I am a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of UWO. My current interests are:
Open positions for Master and PhD students as well as postoctoral fellows
July 2008
Department of Physics and Astronomy ,
University of Western Ontario
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