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85748 Garching

Ralph Gilles

Dr. habil. Ralph Gilles

Research & Skills

I am a physicist and heading the research group “Advanced Materials” with expertise in neutron scattering methods for studying energy materials as high-temperature alloys and batteries. At FRM II, I was working as an instrument scientist to design, built and brought in commission the structure powder diffractometer SPODI and the small-angle scattering instrument SANS-1 dedicated for materials science and magnetism at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in Garching, near Munich, Germany. In my group methods as diffraction, small-angle scattering, imaging, neutron depth profiling and neutron induced prompt gamma activation analysis are applied mainly for alloy and battery research. I authored over 160 peer-reviewed articles (37 as first author) on topics ranging from instrumentation at large scale facilities, alloy development, thin films, ceramics over to in-situ and operando studies on batteries. Furthermore, I am the industrial coordinator for industrial use of scientific instruments at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum.

Methods:
  • neutron and X-ray diffraction
  • small-angle neutron scattering
  • neutron depth profiling
  • and more methods

Curriculum Vitae

since 2015

Head of Advanced Materials group

since 2012

Group coordinator of the Materials Science group at Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ)

since 2005

Coordinator for the industrial use of scientific instruments at the research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II)

2011-2020

Head of the Materials Science Laboratory (X-ray diffraction, Small-angle X-ray scattering, DSC, microscopy, sample preparation etc.)

2003-2015

Instrument responsible for the Small-Angle Neutron Scattering instrument SANS-1 at FRM II in Garching

1998-2003

Instrument responsible for the Structure Powder Diffractometer SPODI at FRM II in Garching

1995-1998

Instrument responsible for the Small-Angle Neutron Scattering instrument V4 at Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin

2004

Habilitation in Materials Science – Superalloys and Neutron Scattering, University of Darmstadt

1995

Phd in Physics (Crystallography) – Thin films, University of Bonn

1990

Diploma in Physics, University of Bonn

Selected Publications

Dr. habil. Ralph Gilles
Technische Universität München
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ)
Head of Advanced Materials Group
Lichtenbergstr. 1
85748 Garching

Phone: +49 (0)89 289-14665
E-Mail: ralph.gilles@frm2.tum.de

MLZ is a cooperation between:

Technische Universität München> Technische Universität MünchenHelmholtz-Zentrum Hereon> Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Forschungszentrum Jülich> Forschungszentrum Jülich

MLZ is a member of:

LENS> LENSERF-AISBL> ERF-AISBL

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