Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Huber

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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Patrick Huber
Position:
Institute Director
Hamburg University of Technology
Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics (M-2)
Building K, RNr. 2532
Denickestraße 15
21073 Hamburg
Germany
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Biographie

Curriculum Vitae

(Lebenslauf auf deutsch (bei Wikipedia))

born in Neunkirchen (Saarland, Germany)

 

Educational and Professional Career

since 2025 Spokesperson of the Centre for Molecular Water Science, Hamburg, together with Melanie Schnell.
since 2024 Member of the United Nations University Hub on Engineering to Face Climate Change at the Hamburg University of Technology, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)
since 2023 Member and project leader within the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1615, "SMART Reactors for Future Process Engineering", Hamburg
since 2022 Spokesperson of the profile "New Materials" in the Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research PIER PLUS - Hamburg
since 2020 Principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence -
Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg
since 2020  Full professor and Director of the Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics (M-2) at Technische Universität Hamburg TUHH and of the research group on High-Resolution X-Ray Analytics of Materials in the Photon Science Division at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY 
since 2019 Principal investigator in the Data Science HELMHOLTZ Graduate School Hamburg for the Structure of Matter (DASHH)
since 2018 Speaker of the research field "Advanced Materials" at Hamburg University of Technology
2012-2024 Member and project leader within the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 986, "Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials Systems", Hamburg 
2012-2020 Associate Professor at Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Materials Physics
2011-2012 Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Pontifical Catholic University, Santiago de Chile
2010/2011 Guest Scientist in the Department of Biomaterials (Prof. Peter Fratzl), Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam (Germany)
2008-2014

Lecturer ("Privatdozent") in Experimental Physics at Saarland University
2007

Habilitation Thesis, Saarland University, Mentor: Klaus Knorr
2006/2007 Interim Professorship in Experimental Physics at Saarland University
2002 Appointment to Academic Counselor (”Akademischen Rat”) of the Department of Physics and Mechatronics Engineering, Saarland University
07/2000-
09/2001		 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and School of Applied Sciences and Engineering , Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA)
07/1999-
09/2001		 Post-Doc in Peter Pershan's X-ray group, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), within a scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG), "Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies at the Free Surface of Liquid Metals". 
1999 Ph. D. in Physics with honors (”summa cum laude”), Thesis title ”Structure and Thermodynamics of Condensates in Porous Glasses ”, Department of Physics, Saarland University, Advisor: Klaus Knorr
1995 Diploma in Physics, Saarland University, Thesis title: ”Design and setup of a low temperature x-ray diffractometer”, Advisor: Klaus Knorr
1989-1995 Studies in Physics at Saarland University
1988 Abitur, Gymnasium Ottweiler (Saarland, Germany)
1975-1979 Primary School in Urexweiler (Saarland, Germany)

Awards

2018

Top reviewer award, Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics as announced in Applied Physics Letters 114 209801 (2019)

2000

Dr.-Eduard-Martin Award of the Friends of Saarland University for outstanding dissertation thesis
1988 Award for outstanding performance in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Gymnasium Ottweiler (Saarland, Germany)

 

For my full publication record (along with citation metrics) see my Google Scholar entry.


Representative Publications:

  1. Wafer-Scale Electroactive Nanoporous Silicon: Large and Fully Reversible Electrochemo-Mechanical Actuation in Aqueous Electrolytes
    Manuel Brinker and Patrick Huber
    Advanced Materials 34, 202105923 (2022) - open access.
  2. Laser-Excited Elastic Guided Waves Reveal the Complex Mechanics of Nanoporous Silicon
    Marc Thelen, Nicolas Bochud, Manuel Brinker, Claire Prada, Patrick Huber
    Nature Communications 12, 3597 (2021) - open access. 
  3. Giant Electrochemical Actuation in a Nanoporous Silicon-Polypyrrole Hybrid Material
    Manuel Brinker, Guido Dittrich, Claudia Richert, Pirmin Lakner, Tobias Krekeler, Thomas F. Keller, Norbert Huber, Patrick Huber
    Science Advances 6 eaba1483 (2020)     - open access.
  4. Quantized Self-Assembly of Discotic Rings in a Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanopores
    Kathrin Sentker, Arne W. Zantop, Milena Lippmann, Tommy Hofmann, Oliver H. Seeck, Andriy V. Kityk, Arda Yildirium, Andreas Schönhals, Marco G. Mazza, and Patrick Huber
    Physical Review Letters 120, 067801 (2018) - open access.
  5. Soft Matter in Hard Confinement: Phase Transition Thermodynamics, Structure, Texture, Diffusion and Flow in Nanoporous Media
    Patrick Huber
    Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 27, 103102 (2015).
  6. Elastic Response of Mesoporous Silicon to Capillary Pressures in the Pores
    Gennady Y. Gor, Luca Bertinetti, Noam Bernstein, Tommy Hofmann, Peter Fratzl, and Patrick Huber
    Applied Physics Letters 106 261901 (2015).
  7. Switchable Imbibition in Nanoporous Gold
    Yahui Xue, Jürgen Markmann, Huiling Duan, Jörg Weissmüller, and Patrick Huber
    Nature Communications 5, 4237 (2014) - open access.
  8. Anomalous Front Broadening During Spontaneous Imbibition in a Matrix with Elongated Pores
    Simon Gruener, Zeinab Sadjadi, Helen E. Hermes, Andriy V. Kityk, Klaus Knorr, Stefan U. Egelhaaf, Heiko Rieger, and Patrick Huber
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 26, 10245 (2012) [pdf] - open access.
  9. Capillary Rise of Water in Hydrophilic Nanopores  
    Simon Grüner, Tommy Hofmann, Dirk Wallacher, Andriy Kityk and Patrick Huber
    Physical Review E 79, 067301 (2009) [pdf].
  10. Knudsen Diffusion in Silicon Nanochannels 
    Simon Grüner and Patrick Huber
    Physical Review Letters 100, 064502 (2008) [pdf].

News

  • 26.02.2025 Centre for Molecular Water Science (CMWS) inaugurated

    The DESY-initiated CMWS is a Europe-wide research network in the field of molecular water research. The CMWS declaration has been signed by forty-seven founding members from twelve countries – including fourteen German universities and eight Helmholtz Centres. See also the corresponding press release.

  • 18.11.2024 Ultrafast X-ray imaging at the European XFEL of a water droplet sucked into a porous silicon membrane by capillary action

  • 12.09.2024 Article "Deformation dynamics of nanopores upon water imbibition" published in PNAS

    Our article shows by a combination of experiments and computer simulations of water imbibition in nanopores that the competition between expansive, surface stress release at pore walls and negative, contractile Laplace pressures of nanoscale menisci lead to an unusual macroscopic behavior of the porous medium, which is generic for any liquid/nanoporous solid combination. The results allow one to quantify surface and Laplace stresses and to monitor nanoscale flow and infiltration states by relatively simple length measurements of the porous medium.

  • 17.05.2024 - New publication: "Self-Assembly of Ionic Superdiscs in Nanopores"

    Our study on discotic ionic liquid crystals has been published in ACS Nano - see also the DESY press release.

  • May 2024 - At this year's PSST conference in Brno (Czech Republic) Stella Gries received the prize for the talk of the day. Congratulations to her and also to Manfred May for the 2nd place in the best poster award of the conference!