Dr. Hartmut Bielefeldt

Education and professional background

1984	Abitur (high school graduation)
1984-1985	Military service (surveying duties in artillery)
1985-91	Study of physics at Konstanz University, Germany
1984-1989 (5 summers)	different practical trainings at Dornier GmbH company, Friedrichshafen: numerical simulations, data acquisition and optimization procedures for magnet assemblies in wigglers for free electron lasers; programming of numerical simulations for several other problems in physics
1990-91	Diploma thesis in scanning force and friction microscopy at Univ. of Konstanz
June 1991	Diploma in physics
1991-94	Ph.D. thesis at Konstanz University: opical near-field microscopy in reflection and transmission Applications: semiconductor characterization, polymer mixtures
Sept. 1994	Ph.D. degree
Jan.-Sept. 1995	Postdoctoral stay (9 months) at Laboratoire d'Optique P.M. Duffieux, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon (France): Design, construction and operation of a combined scanning force and optical near-field microscope (Human Capital and Mobility Program of the European Union)
Oct. 95-Sept. 96	Postdoctoral stay at the IBM Research Laboratory Zürich/Rüschlikon, Switzerland: Scanning near-field optical microscopy (applications, technical development, questions of image interpretation) (Human Capital and Mobility Program)
Oct. - Dec. 1996	Construction of a scanning near-field optical microscope for semiconductor investigations using ultrashort laser pulses in the near infrared (IBM Rüschlikon / ETH Zürich, IQE)
March 1997 - Feb. 2002	University of Augsburg: Scanning probe microscopy characterization of oxide thin films and crystals, numerical simulations of the scanning force microscopy imaging mechanism, low-temperature UHV scanning probe microscopy
since May 2003	Sensor develompent (optoelectronic sensors) at ifm electronic GmbH, Meckenbeuren, Germany since 2014: ifm efector gmbh, Tettnang, Germany

Teaching

(Augsburg, 1997-2002)

• Seminars for undergraduate physics students
• exam preparation course for state examinations candidates in experimental physics
• responsible for the "Scanning Force Microscopy" experiment for undergraduate students ("Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum")
• responsibility for diploma and Ph.D. students
• casual lessons in basic and advanced physics courses (as a stand-in)

Skills

• excellent knowledge of software for data processing, graphics, CAD, text processing and databases, under Windows, DOS, OS/2, Unix, and Atari
• WWW design (homepage of the group at University of Augsburg, and many other projects)
• programming languages: Pascal, Fortran, APL, BASIC, PHP; HTML; Python
• analog electronics, data acquisition, image processing
• concept, realization and application of scanning probe microscopes (atomic force microscope, scanning near-field optical microscope, combined techniques)
• scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam
• ultrahigh vacuum, low temperature, thin film techniques
• technology of optical fibers, optics, laser

Languages

• German: mother tongue
• English: fluent
• Spanish, French, Russian: basic knowledge

Last updated October 30, 2014 by Hartmut Bielefeldt