© Tiss: Richard Wilhelm

Associate Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Richard Arthur Wilhelm has been assigned to the Institute of Applied Physics (E134) at the Faculty of Physics, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien since July 1, 2023 as Associate Professor for Ion and Plasma Physics.

Richard A. Wilhelm comes from Saxony (D) and studied physics at the TU Dresden, where he also received his doctorate with distinction in 2014 with a dissertation on the "Interaction of slow highly charged ions with ion crystal surfaces and ultra-thin carbon membranes, opens an external URL in a new window". As a post-doc, he remained connected to the TU Dresden and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf for some time afterwards. In 2016 he moved to Austria to do research at the TU Wien, first as a postdoc and then as a university assistant. In 2019, after winning a START prize for "The observation of ion scattering in real time, opens an external URL in a new window" [TU Wien News Article and Die Presse Article, opens an external URL in a new window], he was able to secure a career position on Ion and plasma physics, which he has now successfully completed with a qualification as an associate professor. In 2023 he received the Venia Docendi for the subject Experimental Physics with a habilitation thesis on "The charge exchange of slow highly charged ions at surfaces unraveled with freestanding 2D materials, opens an external URL in a new window".

The scientific home of Richart A. Wilhelm is the Research Unit of Atomic and Plasma Physics (134-03) at the mentioned institute.

Publications by Richard A. Wilhelm in ReposiTUm, opens an external URL in a new window.