Alexander Grötsch

Role at KTH:

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)

Research areas/interests:

Applied Physics | Synchrotron Science | Solid Mechanics | Materials Science | SAXS | WAXS/XRD | Microscale | Nanoscale | Additive Manufacturing | In situ micromechanical testing | (Architected) Functional Materials | Mechanical Metamaterials | 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

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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):

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/).

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

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

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