Main Responsibilities

• thin film production and development
• characterisation of thin films
• maintenance of vacuum coating devices and lasers

Career

• Technical school for fashion and apparel
• Advanced training course for fashion and apparel
• Teacher-trainig at the academy of Eggenberg for math and sculptural education
• Engineer at the Christian Doppler Labor (thin films division)
• Engineer at the University of Leoben
• Engineer at Leoben Laser Centre (thin films division)

• Accurate raman spectroscopy of diamond-like carbonfilms deposited by an anode layer source
• Detachment kinetics of Eukaryote cells from biocompatible PVD Coatings
• DLC films deposited at room temperature by reactive Magnetron sputtering and by an anode layer source - a comparative study
• Growth morphology, adhesion and mechanical properties of room-temperature pulsed laser deposited Cr-CrN multilayer coatings
• Growth phenomena in room temperature pulsed laser deposited Chromium Nitride coatings
• Influences of the nitrogen content on the morphological, chemical and optical properties of pulsed laser deposited silicon nitride hin films
• Laserzentrum Leoben: Innovative Raumtemperatur-Laserbeschichtung für Optik, Sensorik und Verschleißschutz
• New trends in coating: Room temperature deposition of titanium-based films
• Properties of DLC and Nitrogen doped DLC films Deposited by DC Magnetron Sputtering
• Structural and mechanical properties of diamond-like carbon films deposited by an anode layer source
• Structural, mechanical and tribological investigations of pulsed laser deposited titanium nitride coatings