TT-Prof. Dr. Philip Willke

Physikalisches Institut
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang-Gaede-Straße 1
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Building: 30.23 | Office: 2.06
Labs: 30.25, rooms −103/−105

Curriculum Vitae

2022 – current: Tenure-Track Professor (W1), Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
2020 – current: Research Group Leader in the Emmy-Noether Program of the German Science Foundation (DFG), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Physikalisches Institut, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018 – 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher and Feodor-Lynen Fellow, IBS Center for Quantum Nanoscience and Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea (Advisors: Prof. Andreas Heinrich, Prof. Taeyoung Choi)
2017 – 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, IBM Almaden Research Center, CA, USA (Advisors: Christopher Lutz, Prof. Andreas Heinrich)
2013 – 2017: PhD at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (summa cum laude), Scanning Tunneling Microscopy group (Advisor: PD Dr. Martin Wenderoth)
2011 – 2012: General Visiting Student at Peking University, PR China — studying Chinese and Physics
2008 – 2013: Bachelor and Master of Science in Physics at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, focus on Solid State and Material Physics

2022: Young Scientist of the Year (Nachwuchswissenschaftler des Jahres) 2022, awarded by academics.de and the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV) — more ↗
2022: Gaede Prize 2022, awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG) — more ↗
2022: Gerhard-Ertl Young Investigator Award 2022, awarded by the German Physical Society (DPG), Surface Science division
2016: 2nd place, German science slam championship, Darmstadt (12/2016)
2012: Science Award of Lower Saxony 2012, student category (Niedersächsischer Wissenschaftspreis 2012)

2018 – 2019: Feodor-Lynen scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2011 – 2012: Fellow of the Chinese Scholarship Council
2011 – 2013: German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2010 – 2013: Fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation