Kornelius Nielsch has been Director of the Institute for Metallic Materials at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden and W3 Professor at the Technical University of Dresden since 2015. His research focuses on sustainable materials for thermoelectric applications, the development of 2D materials using atomic layer deposition (ALD), and superconducting materials and components. He earned his doctorate in magnetic nanostructures at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, headed a BMBF-funded junior research group on nanowires at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, and then served as W2 professor of experimental physics at the University of Hamburg from 2007 to 2015.
