PERSONAL INFORMATION

Family name, First name: Meixner, Alfred J.

Date of birth: April 29, 1959

Nationality: Swiss

URL for web site:  www.uni-tuebingen.de/nanospectroscopy

EDUCATION

1996                Habilitation in Experimental Physics, Institute of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

1988                Dr. sc. nat., Physical Chemistry, Chemistry Dept, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Grade: summa cum laude

1984                Diploma in Chemistry, Diplom Chemiker ETH, Chemistry Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

CURRENT POSITION

Dec. 2004 -      Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ordinarius, (C4), Faculty of Sciences,Department of Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

1998 – 2004    Full Professor of Physical Chemistry (C4), Faculty of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Germany            

1996 – 1998    Associated Professor of Physics (C3), Faculty of Sciences, Physics Department, Technical University of Dresden, Germany

1992 – 1996    Junior Group Leader, Institute of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

1990 – 1991    Postdoc. IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose California, USA

1984 – 1990    Research Assistant, Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Chemistry Department,

                      Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

1996               Chaired Position: Eminent Chair called “Eckprofessur” awarded by the Ministry of Science of the State Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

1992 – 1994    Scholarship: Fellow of the Treubel Fundation of the University of Basel, Switzerland

1992               IBM-Almaden Invention Achievement Award, IBM-Research Laboratory, IBM – Corporation, USA

1990 – 1991    Postdoctoral Fellowship, IBM World Trade Fellow, IBM-Corporation, USA    

1988               ETH-Medal for excellent PhD-thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland

Single Quantum Emitters & Microcavities

Plasmon mediated interactions between metal nanoparticles and molecules

Micro- and Nano-structured Functional Interfaces 

Parabolic Mirror Near-field Optics Lab

Theory:  Electromagnetic field calculations of the field between a near-field tip and the substrate; Calculation of the field in the focus of an objective or parabolic mirror, simulation of scan images; Theory for contrast enhancement in confocal microscopy of biological samples; Software engineering of highly specialized software solutions for measuring and data analysis 

Plant high resolution imaging/spectroscopy