Wolfgang Knoll#
| Membership Number: | 4475 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ait.ac.at |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - 2021 Visiting Professor, Parma University, Italy
- 2009 - date Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2008 - date Scientific Managing Director, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- 2004 - 2013 Visiting Principal Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore
- 1999 - 2003 Temasek Professor, National University of Singapore
- 1999 - date Adjunct Professor, Hanyang University, Korea
- 1998 - 2012 Consulting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- 1998 - date Professor (by Courtesy) Chemistry Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- 1993 - 2008 Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research
- 1991 - 1999 Head of Laboratory for Exotic Nano-Materials, Frontier Research Program, RIKEN-Institute, Japan
Fields of Scholarship
- Surface optical techniques/ Integrated optics/ nonlinear optics
- Organic/polymeric ultra-thin films/ monolayers
- Membrane biophysics
- Supramolecular chemistry at interfaces
- Nanostructures
- Biosensor development
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Honorary Doctorat, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- 2010 Regular Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Exner Medal, Österreichischer Gewerbeverein
- 2003 Eugen-und-Ilse-Seibold Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 1990 Heinrich-Welker-Award, Siemens/Universität Erlangen
- 1988 Merck Centennial Lecturer, University of Iowa, Ames
- 1986 Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
