Reinhard Neder

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Reinhard Neder (born November 22, 1959 in Münster , Germany) is a German crystallographer and professor of crystallography and structural physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Career

Reinhard Neder studied mineralogy at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster with the support of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung's scholarship for talented students . After graduating, he moved to Arizona State University , Tempe, Arizona, USA, where he received his Master of Science in Geology in 1985 . Under the guidance of Friedrich Frey , he then worked on his doctoral thesis until 1989 with the topic “Determination of the defect structure of the cubic stabilized zirconia (Zr 0.85 Ca 0.15 O 1.85 ) at 290 K and 1550 K by means of integral and purely elastic neutron diffraction “At the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich at the research reactor FRM I. The doctoral thesis was followed by an assistantship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich in the group of Heinz Hermann Schulz , in the context of which he wrote his habilitation thesis in 1996 . During this period he published the beginnings of the now comprehensive DISCUS program suite for the first time. In 1997 he was appointed professor of crystal structure at the chair for mineralogy and crystal structure at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg. In 2008 he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg to the chair for crystallography and structural physics, where he is still professor for condensed matter physics.

Reinhard Neder is married and has two children.

plant

Reinhard Neder deals with the structure elucidation of disordered materials and microcrystals through X-ray and neutron diffraction . For this purpose he created the simulation software package DISCUS SUITE in cooperation with Thomas Proffen, which was originally developed for the analysis of defect structures and their diffuse scattering.

The DISCUS (Diffuse SCattering and Structure Simulation) program suite combines the formerly stand-alone programs DISCUS, DIFFEV, KUPLOT and is a command line-based, interactive program for modeling disordered crystal structures. In the meantime, the range of functions of the program enables the calculation of diffractograms as well as pair distribution functions and allows the diverse modeling of defect structures using various simulation and fitting algorithms (e.g. Reverse Monte Carlo).

DISCUS is not only suitable as a tool for research and science, but is a license-free platform for teaching about the physics of the scattering of particles and electromagnetic radiation.

Awards

Publications

  • Thomas Proffen: Diffuse scattering and defect structure simulations. A cook book using the DISCUS program . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-923369-4 .
  • Th. Proffen, RB Neder: DISCUS. A program for diffuse scattering and defect-structure simulation . In: Journal of Applied Crystallography . tape 30 , no. 2 , April 1, 1997, ISSN  0021-8898 , p. 171–175 , doi : 10.1107 / S002188989600934X ( iucr.org [accessed November 1, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News ONLINE | German Society for Crystallography. Retrieved November 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard Neder ›Department of Physics. Accessed November 1, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Neder / Proffen: Discus download. In: GitHub. November 1, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Neder, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German crystallographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Germany