Dieter Bäuerle

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E-mail: dieter.baeuerle@jku.at
Web: http://www.applphys.jku.at/

Area of Expertise

Laser-material interactions, Laser processing

Biography

• 1969 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Infrared spectroscopy; defects in ionic crystals)
• 1969 - 1971 Max-Kade-Foundation Fellow and Research Associate at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Phyics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (Fourierspectroscopy; phonons, magnons)
• 1971 - 1975 Research/Project Manager at the Philips Research Labs. (Ultrasonic attenuation; ferroelectric ceramics; chemiluminescence of organic materials)
• May 1973 Habilitation, University of Aachen.
• 1975 - 1978 Professor for Experimental Physics, University of Osnabrück, Germany (Laserspectroscopy; nonlinear optics; lattice dynamics, diagnostics of gaseous reactive systems)
• Since 1978 Professor for Applied Physics, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz, Austria (UV-, VIS-, IR-, Raman-, laserspectroscopy; laser material processing, high-Tc superconductors, polymers) Head of Institute of Applied Physics
• 1979 - 1983 Council Member of the European Physical Society.
• 1980 - 1986 Member of the committee of the 'Semiconductors and Insulators Section' of the European Physical Society.
• 1982 - 1987 Member of the European committee of the Materials Research Society (E-MRS).

Member of various different evaluation committees as, e.g., CNRS-URA 445 (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France, 1987-1991, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, 1997 – 2003. Various different awards such as Max-Kade award, 1969; Adolf-Schärf Award for science, 1984; Christian-Doppler Award, 1991.

• Since 1986 Co-editor of “Applied Physics A”.
• Since 1993 Christian-Doppler Senior Fellow.
• 1995-2000 Co-editor of “LaserOpto”.
• 1998-2004 Board of curators “Physik Journal” (German Physical Society)
• Since 1998 Member of the “Academy of Sciences”, New York, USA
• Since 2002 Honorary Doctor of the University of Bucharest.
• 2002 Cofounder of INNSITEC Lasertechnology Inc.
• 2003 Founder of GAP Inc.
• Since 2004 ”Profesor Honorario” of the Universidad Cesar Vallejo of Trujillo, Peru
• 2006/2007 Russell S. Springer Professor at the University of California in Berkeley.

Author and co-author of more than 460 publications in scientific journals, 40 patents, and 12 books. Among those are Laser Grundlagen und Anwendungen in Photonik, Technik, Medizin und Kunst (Wiley, 2008) and Laser Processing and Chemistry (4th Ed., Springer, 2009). Research and Development in cooperation with multinational industrial companies including various European Projects. Member of the Austrian, German, and European Physical Society.

Lecture Title(s)

Laser Processing and Chemistry: Applications in Nanopatterning, Material Synthesis, and Biotechnology

An overview on recent experimental and theoretical investigations with special emphasis on results obtained by the Linz group has been presented. Submicron- and nano-patterning of surfaces has been demonstrated by means of nearfield optical techniques (SNOM) and by 2D-lattices of microlenses formed by self-organization processes. Pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) permits to synthesize new organic, inorganic and composite materials that cannot be fabricated by any standard technique. Recent results on the modification of material surfaces, including cylinder surfaces of Diesel engines and PTFE (Teflon) have been discussed. Chemically modified PTFE surfaces have various different applications in sensor technology, biotechnology, and medicine.