Prof. Dr. Christina Scheu

Professur für Transmissionselektronenmikroskopie (TEM)

	Address	Prof. Dr. Christina Scheu Department Chemie & CeNS Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 11, Haus E 81377 München Germany
	Phone	+49 (0)89 2180-77184 / -77621
	Fax	+49 (0)89 2180-77622
	Room	E2.001
	E-Mail	Christina.Scheu@cup.uni-muenchen.de
	Internet	Webseite

Research interests

Structural and chemical analysis of materials with high spatial resolution & correlation to properties
Exploring chemistry, bonding and atomic and electronic structure of interfaces & nanostructures
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM): high resolution & in-situ TEM methods, electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), electron energy-loss near-edge structure (ELNES)

Short CV

Since June 2008: Professor at LMU Munich, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2005-2008: Group leader at the Department Metallurgy & Materials Testing, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
2003-2005: Group leader at the Materialprüfungsanstalt der Universität Stuttgart
1999-2003: Research assistent at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research Stuttgart
1996-1998: Guest scientist at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Engineering, Haifa, Israel
1993-1996: PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart
1986-1993: Study of Physics, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt

Key publications

"High Carbon Solubility in a -TiAl-based Ti-45Al-5Nb-0.5C Alloy and its Effect on Hardening", C. Scheu, E. Stergar, M. Schober, L. Cha, H. Clemens, A. Bartels, F.-P. Schimansky, A. Cerezo, Acta Materialia, 57, 2009, 1504-1511.
"N-K Electron Energy-Loss Near-Edge Structures for TiN/VN Layers: an ab-Initio and Experimental Study", P. Lazar, J. Redinger, J. Strobl, R. Podloucky, B. Rashkova, G. Dehm, G. Kothleitner, S. Šturm, K. Kutschej, C. Mitterer and C. Scheu, Analytical Bioanalytical Chemistry, 390, 2008, 1447-1453.
"Control of Bonding and Epitaxy at Copper/Sapphire Interface", S. H. Oh, C. Scheu, T. Wagner and M. Rühle, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 2007, 141912-1 - 141912-3.