Prof. Raphael Hermann
(Prof. Raphael Hermann, JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH – Germany)
Selected examples of application of Mössbauer spectroscopy, nuclear resonance scattering of synchrotron radiation, and neutron scattering to battery and related materials research are presented. The charms of Mössbauer spectroscopy as technique for screening materials, for detailed structure investigations, and for in situ measurements are illustrated. New developments of nuclear resonance scattering for isotopes with 30-90 keV resonant energy are presented. Structural, diffusive and dynamic studies utilizing neutron scattering are exemplified.
Biography of Prof. Raphael Hermann
Raphael Hermann received his MSc in Physics in 1995, his MA in Philosophy in 1998, and his PhD in Science 2004 from the University of Liège, Belgium. He joined the group of Prof. Veerle Keppens at the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Tennessee for a postdoctoral fellowship until 2005. In 2006 he joined the Institute for Scattering Methods of Prof. Thomas Brückel at the IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich and in 2008 he was awarded a 6 year Helmholtz-University Young Investigator Group Leader fellowship of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres for his group research “Lattice dynamics in emerging functional materials” in collaboration with the University of Liège, Belgium, where he holds a visiting professorship. He was tenured at the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science in 2013.
His research activities concerns the application of Mössbauer spectroscopy and neutron scattering, for structural and lattice dynamics investigations in thermoelectric materials and a variety of functional inorganic materials.He has organized the “Neutrons for global energy solution 2010″ workshop, a collaboration between JCNS, SNS, ISIS, and authored the corresponding foresight study. He has coauthored over 90 peer-reviewed papers.