Michael Mertig

Michael Mertig received the Ph.D. degree in the field of low temperature physics from the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Dresden, Germany in 1983. After academic positions at the Leibnitz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany, and in the Max Plank Society, “Mechanics of Heterogeneous Solid States” group, Dresden, Germany, he was a Scientist at the Institute for Materials Science, TU Dresden, leading the research group “BioNanotechnology and Structure Formation.” Since 2010, he has been Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at TU Dresden and Director of the Kurt Schwabe Institute for Measuring and Sensor Technologies, Meinsberg, Germany. His main fields of interest are biomimetic materials synthesis and high-resolution structure analysis.