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Gregor Hlawacek

Head of group 'Ion Induced Nanostructures ' at the Ion Beam Center of the HZDR
HZDR
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Dresden, United States

Gregor Hlawacek got a PhD in Materials Science in 2007 from the Institute for Physics at the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria. The topic of his thesis was Molecular growth mechanisms in para-sexiphenyl thin film deposition. In 2009 he moved to the University of Twente in the Netherlands where he started to perform Helium Ion Microscopy (HIM). He was involved in the design of a new UHV vacuum chamber for this instrument and the development of ionoluminescence for the characterization of defects created by the highly focused ion beam.
In 2014, he moved to the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf and since then is in charge of the Orion NanoFAB HIM and the development of high resolution ion beam analysis methods for HIM such as RBS and TOF-SIMS. In addition, HIM has successfully been used for the analysis or the spatially resolved modification of a number of material systems. Since 2019 he is the group leader of the Ion Induced Nanostructures group at the Ion Beam Center and responsible for the low energy ion activities at the institute.
Gregor Hlawacek received the AT&S award of the Austrian Physical Society for the best PhD thesis in solid state physics in 2008. He is (co-)organizers of several HIM and FIB related meetings, conferences and sessions at large international conferences (AVS, M&M, EU-F-N, HeFIB, . . . ). He received funding through the EU (IONS4SET, npSCOPE), the Leverhulme-Trust (picoFIB), the FNR (STHIM), m-era.net/SAB (GoFIB). From 2020 to 2024 he chaired the COST Action CA19140 FIT4NANO. since 2023 he is also the chair of the European FIB Network EU-FIB.net.
Gregor Hlawacek has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals with 3400 citations. He also published 10 book chapters and is editor on the first full book on Helium Ion Microscopy released in 2016.

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