Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS
Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS

Katrin Thieme

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Dr. Katrin Thieme, Deputy Group Manager “Microstructure-based Material Development”

Areas of research

  • Development of glasses and glass ceramics (Elucidation of nucleation and phase separation processes in glasses, Targeted precipitation of crystalline functional phases, Determination of microstructure-property relations)
  • Micro- and nanostructure analysis of pigments and coating systems
  • Clarification of bonding and oxidation states using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

 

Academic / professional resume

01/2023 - today

Deputy Group Manager “Microstructure-based Material Development” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS, Halle (Saale)

04/2020 - 09/2021

Postgraduate studies in "Analytics & Spectroscopy" at the University of Leipzig

10/2018 - 01/2023

Research associate at the Fraunhofer IMWS

01/2016 - 10/2018

Research associate at the Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

12/2012 - 04/2016

Research associate and doctoral candidate at the Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Doctorate on the subject of "Nucleation inhibitors in lithium disilicate glasses" at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10/2007 - 10/2012 

Study of Materials Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

 

Publications

Selected articles in journals with scientific quality control (complete list):

 

K. Thieme, C. Patzig, B. Topper, C. Thieme, S. Gierth, C. Rüssel, T. Höche
Early-stage clustering in Tb-doped borosilicate glasses revealed by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy and luminescence properties
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 962 (2023) 171091

 

C. Thieme, L. Vladislavova, K. Thieme, C. Patzig, T. Höche, C. Rüssel
Noble metals Pt, Au, and Ag as nucleating agents in BaO/SrO/ZnO/SiO2 glasses: formation of alloys and core-shell structures
Journal of Materials Science 57 (2022) 6607-6618

 

K. Thieme, C. Thieme
Determination of the crystallization mechanism of glasses in the system BaO/SrO/ZnO/SiO2 with differential scanning calorimetry
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 142 (2020) 1193-1206

 

W. Wisniewski, K. Thieme, C. Rüssel
Fresnoite glass-ceramics - A review
Progress in Materials Science 98 (2018) 68-107

 

K. Thieme, I. Avramov, C. Rüssel
The mechanism of deceleration of nucleation and crystal growth by the small addition of transition metals to lithium disilicate glasses
Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 25451