Ulrike Diebold#
| Membership Number: | 4952 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.tuwien.at/en/phy/iap/surface-physics/team/ulrike-diebold/ulrike-diebold |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0319-5256 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 , 01 - current Professor and Deputy Head, Institute of Applied Physics, TU Wie, Vienna, Austria
- 2001, 07 - 2009, 12 Professor of Physics and Yahoo! Founder Chair of Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 2005, 09 - 2005, 12 Visiting Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Visiting Research Collaborator, Princeton University (displaced by Hurricane Katrina)
- 2002, 05 - 2002, 12 Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemical Physics, Fritz-Haber Institut of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany (Humboldt Awardee)
- 1999, 07 - 2001, 06 Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1997, 07 - 1997, 10 Visiting Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA (Sabbatical)
- 1997, 03 - 1997, 07 Visiting Professor, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria (Sabbatical)
- 1993, 07 - 1999, 06 Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1990, 10 - 1993, 06 Research Associate, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Post-doc Adviser: Prof. Theodore E. Madey
- 1986, 10 - 1990, 06 Research Assistant, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria (PhD Thesis Advisor: Prof. Peter Varga)
Fields of Scholarship
- Oxide surfaces
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Atomic-scale surface chemistry
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Surface science
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Elected Member, German National Academy of Science Leopoldina
- 2015 Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (Awarded by the European Academy of Sciences)
- 2014 Elected Member, European Academy of Sciences
- 2014 Eminent Visitor Award, Catalysis Society of South Africa (CATSA)
- 2014 Elected Full Member Austrian Academy of Science
- 2013 Wittgenstein-Preis (the highest research award in Austria, one or two per year awarded)
- 2013 Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry
- 2012 Elected as a Corresponding Member, Austrian Academy of Science
- 2012 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Researcher Grant
- 2007 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2005 Fellow, AVS – The Science and Technology Society for Materials, Interfaces, and Processing
- 2004 Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2001 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
