Research interests: Relating nanostructure to functionality
- Lab based X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS/XRD) on colloidal nanocrystals: semiconducting core/shell NCs and magnetic FeO NCs
- Synchrotron based X-ray techniques: In-situ & ex-situ (A)SAXS, WAXS, XRD, XANES,...
- Magnetic properties of nanostructures
Scientific Panels:
- Executive Board Member of ESUO, the European Synchrotron User Organisation (esuo.eu) since 2021
- Austrian Delegate to ESUO since 2012
- Member of working groups & panels within LEAPS: League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources
- Member of the Project Review Panel SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS at DESY-PETRA III
Conference Organisation (repeatingly):
- Biannual European NESY Winter School & Symposium on Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation since 2011:
nesy.unileoben.ac.at
Publications:
Full list of publications via Scholar
Academic Career
- 1993 - 2000
Study of physics, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz (Austria)
- 1999 - 2000
Diploma thesis: "Optical properties of metallic nanoparticles in a two-dimensional lattice configuration"August - 2000 - April 2004
Ph.D. thesis: "Magnetic semiconductor nanostructures" at Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, JKU Linz - May 2004 - July 2006
Postdoctoral position in the IV-VI group, JKU Linz
- August 2006 - October 2009
Senior PostDoc at Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, JKU Linz
- August 2006 -November 2011
Project leader of FWF Project: Ferromagnetic GeMnTe nanostructures
- October 2009 - October 2015
University Assistant, Institute of Physics, Montanuniversitaet LeobenOctober
- since 2015 -Senior Lecturer, Institute of Physics, Montanuniversitaet Leoben
Activities
NaNaX 10 '23
Rainer T. Lechner presented his results on x-ray characterisation of colloidal nanocrystals with a talk and a poster at the international conference NaNaX 10-Nanoscience with Nanocrystals. This traditional bi-annual conference brought international experts from all over the world to ISTA in Klosterneuburg from July 3-7, 2023.
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