Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Knoll
Scientific Managing Director,
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wien

• 1973 Diploma - Physics, Technical University of Karlsruhe
• 1976 Ph.D. - Biophysics, University of Konstanz
• 1976-1977 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz
• 1977-1980 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ulm
• 1980-1981 Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Research Laboratory, San José, CA
• 1981 Visiting Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
• 1981-1986 Assistant Professor, Technical University of Munich
• 1985 Visiting Scientist, IBM Research Laboratory, San José, CA
• 1986 Postdoctoral Degree: "Habilitation" - Physics, Technical, University of Munich
• 1986-1991 Young Investigator/Associate Professor, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
• 1988 Visiting Scientist, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ
• 1990 Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Chem. & Nuc. Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
• 1990-1991 Visiting Professor, University of Erlangen
• 1991-1999 Head of Laboratory for Exotic Nano-Materials, Frontier Research Program, RIKEN-Institute, Japan
• since 1992 Consulting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
• 1993-2008 Director, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
• since 1998 Professor (by Courtesy) Chemistry Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• since 1999 Adjunct Professor, Hanyang University, Korea
• 1999-2003 Temasek Professor, National University of Singapore
• since 2004 Visiting Principal Scientist, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore
• since 2008 Scientific Managing Director, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wien
• since 2009 Honorary Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Wien

• Heisenbergstipendium der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1986
• Merck Centennial Lecturer, University of Iowa, Ames, 1988
• Heinrich-Welker-Award, Siemens/Universität Erlangen, 1990
• Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1999 
• Eugen-und-Ilse-Seibold Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2003
• Exner Medaille, Österreichischer Gewerbeverein, 2008

Synergistic Activities

• Serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the Biomaterials Interfaces Group implementing biofunctional surface science into the AVS
• Teaching courses at Stanford University, University of Leuwen (Belgium), Hanyang University (Korea), University of Florida in Gainesville, FL; National University of Singapore, Singapore; University of Venice, Italy; University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
• Establish a research group at the Natl. University of Singapore/Institute of Materials Research & Engineering, Singapore
• Serve in various Editorial Boards of Intl. Journals
• Organize several Intl. Conferences on Biointerfaces and Nanotechnology