My Background

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Wolter Siemons currently works at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...

... performing materials research in the field of nanoscience. In particular he investigates the influence of electron correlation on bulk materials and at interfaces between materials. He holds MSc., MBA, and PhD degrees from the University of Twente in The Netherlands. For his PhD work he spent three years at Stanford University in the United States. Subsequently, he was a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley working on thermoelectric materials for clean energy. He is proficient in a wide variety of film growth and analysis techniques. His specific research interests over the last years are interface physics, correlated electron systems, epitaxial stabilization of materials, and materials for energy. More information about these areas of research can be found by following the links to the right.

Research interests

Image 1 Interface physics In 2004 it was discovered that a conducting electron layer exists at this interface with a sheet carrier density of ~1017 electrons/cm2 and a mobility of 104 cm2 ...
Image 1 Correlated electron systems It is widely agreed that electron-electron correlation plays an important role in many complex oxide systems. Models exist that predict behavior based on ...
Image 1 Epitaxial stabilization Applying strain through epitaxy is a powerful tool to influence material properties and even create new structural phases of materials. For example, I ...
Image 1 Materials for energy At the University of California at Berkeley I studied materials for energy applications, specifically thermoelectrics. Oxide materials for thermoelectrics ...