Alexander Grötsch

Role at KTH:

Asst. Professor (Tenure Track)

Research areas/interests:

Applied Physics | Synchrotron Science | Architected Metamaterials | Functional Materials | Microscale | Nanoscale | Solid Mechanics | Materials Science | SAXS | WAXS/XRD | Additive Manufacturing | In situ micromechanical testing | Bio-based Nanostructured Materials

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Previous affiliations (selection):

University of California, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Irvine, CA, USA

EMPA (ETH Domain) - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, Thun, Switzerland

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Scotland, United Kingdom

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Hemholtz Research Center, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), Quantum Nanoscience (PGI-3), Germany

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Awards and distinctions (selection):

"Reviewer of the Month", October 2024 (Nature Portfolio) (https://www.nature.com/commseng/referees/reviewer-of-the-month)

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), UK (John Moyes Lessells Scholarship 2018) (https://rse.org.uk/)

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 1st Year PhD Research Prize, 2017

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Synchrotron beamtimes at:

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France (https://www.esrf.fr/home.html)

Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, UK (https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home.html)

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Swiss Light Source (SLS), Villigen, Switzerland (https://www.psi.ch/en)

MAX IV, Lund, Sweden (https://www.maxiv.lu.se/)

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Scientific networks (selection):

LINXS - Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science, Lund, Sweden (https://www.linxs.se/)

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) (German Physical Society) (https://www.dpg-physik.de/?set_language=en)

MecaNano (https://mecanano.com/), a European Network for the "Mechanics of Matter at the Nano-Scale". MecaNano is funded by the EU via Horizon Europe as a European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) Action. It aims to advance the multiscale understanding of the mechanical behaviour of nanostructured materials (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21121/).

European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) (https://euromech.org/)

Digital Futures Faculty Member -Digital Futures (https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/) is a cross-disciplinary research centre with the vision to solve societal challenges through digital transformation. It was established in 2020 by KTH, Stockholm University and RISE, based on significant long-term support of a Strategic Research Area by the Swedish Government.