Paul Mayrhofer

Paul Heinz Mayrhofer (born August 5, 1972 in Oberpullendorf ) is a university professor for materials science at the Technical University of Vienna .

Paul Mayrhofer studied materials science at the Montan University Leoben . After obtaining his doctorate in 2001 at the University of Leoben (in cooperation with the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen , CZ) with the work Nanocrystalline Hard Coatings , he worked as a university assistant at the University of Leoben and post-doc at the Center for Microanalysis of Materials and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA. From January 2005 to July 2006 he spent his Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship at the Department Materials Chemistry of the RWTH Aachen University and the Department of Thin Film Physics of the University of Linköping . In 2005, he completed his habilitation on the subject of Nanostructural Design of Hard Thin Films at the Montan University Leoben . In 2012 he was appointed professor of materials science at the Vienna University of Technology . In 2013 he was accepted into the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Awards (excerpt)

• 2003: Josef Krainer Award of the Josef Krainer-Styrian Memorial Work
• 2004: Erwin Schrödinger grant from the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF)
• 2006: Theodor Körner Prize
• 2007: START Prize of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF)
• 2009: Josef Krainer Appreciation Prize from the Josef Krainer Styrian Memorial
• 2010: Houskapreis (1st place)
• 2018: Fellow of AVS of the American Vacuum Society

Web links

• ResearcherID
• Portrait on the page of the START award winners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Heinz Mayrhofer: In: oeaw.ac.at . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
2. ↑ Josef Krainer Prize Winners 2003. In: steirisches-gedenkwerk.at . Retrieved August 19, 2019.
3. ↑ Josef Krainer Prize Winners 2009. In: steirisches-gedenkwerk.at . Retrieved August 19, 2019.