Oliver Schmidt's Biography

Oliver Schmidt, Professor & Director, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung

Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt is a Director at the IFW Dresden, Germany, and holds a full Professorship for Material Systems for Nanoelectronics at the Chemnitz University of Technology,Germany. His interdisciplinary activities bridge across several research fields, ranging from nanophotonics, nanoelectronics and microfluidics to microrobotics and biophysics. He has received several awards: the Otto-Hahn Medal from the Max-Planck-Society in 2000, the Philip-Morris Research Award in 2002 and the Carus-Medal from the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 2005. In 2010, he was awarded the Guinness World Record for the smallest man-made jet engine. More recently, he received the International Dresden Barkhausen Award 2013 for his work on “Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes”. He has published more than 650 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has an H-Index of 82.