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Associate Prof. Dipl.-Phys. Dr.techn. Michael Schneider has been assigned to the Institute of Sensor and Actuator Systems , opens an external URL in a new window(E366) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien since August 1, 2023 as Associate Professor for Advanced Piezoelectric Microsystems.

Michael Schneider comes from Saarland and studied physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). After completing his studies in 2009, he moved to Vienna, where he received his doctorate with honors from TU Wien in 2014 with a dissertation on the topic "Influence of layer thickness and substrate pretreatment on the electro-mechanical properties of sputtered aluminum nitride thin films, opens an external URL in a new window". He then remained associated with the TU Wien as a postdoc and was able to secure a career position on the subject of Advanced Piezoelectric Microsystems in 2020, which he has now completed by qualifying as an Associate Professor. In 2021, he also received the Venia Docendi for the subject Microsystems Technology with a habilitation thesis on the subject of "Piezoelectric silicon microsystems: from robust materials to advanced device concepts, opens an external URL in a new window". Since September 2022, he has been heading the CD Laboratory for Piezoelectric Silicon MEMS with increased sensitivity and responsiveness, opens an external URL in a new window, in which he and his team investigate questions about noise in piezoelectric materials and the non-linear behavior of bi-stable PiezoMEMS components.

Michael Schneider's scientific home is the Research Unit of Microsystems Technology, opens an external URL in a new window (E366-02) at the aforementioned institute. There he deals with the design and conception of piezoelectric microsystems for use in a wide variety of application scenarios from viscosity measurements in liquids to ultrasonic emitters. Fundamental questions about the mechanics of microsystems and material aspects are also a central focus of his research work.

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