Florian Banhart

Florian Banhart obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 1988 under the supervision of Alfred Seeger. From 1989 to 1999, he has been a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and from 1999 to 2003 at the University of Ulm (Germany). After his habilitation in 2001, he has been appointed Professor at the University of Mainz where he was chair of the microscopy center. Since 2007, he is Professor of Physics at the University of Strasbourg. He is member of the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS). He has been awardee of the EQUIPEX program in 2011, and he was appointed Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) in 2014. Since 2017, he is a USIAS fellow.

His scientific activities are in the fields of in-situ electron microscopy and low-dimensional materials. He is working on atomic defects, diffusion in solids, materials far from equilibrium and under irradiation, phase transformations in nanomaterials, and electrical transport in atomic one-dimensional systems. His recent activities focus on ultrafast electron microscopy.