Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWSProfile
Dr. Katrin Thieme, Deputy Group Manager »Microstructure-based Material Developemnt«
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
since 2023
Deputy Group Manager “Microstructure-based Material Developemnt” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS, Halle (Saale)
2019 - 2021
Postgraduate studies in "Analytics & Spectroscopy" at the University of Leipzig
2018 - 2023
Research associate at the Fraunhofer IMWS
2016 - 2018
Research associate at the Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2012 - 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
2007 - 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