General:

• Date of birth: November 11, 1957 in Villach (Austria);
• Citizenship: Austrian;
• Civic status: married, one child;
• Civil service: June 2, 1986 - January 31, 1987.

Current position:

Associate professor at the Graz University of Technology (TU-Graz), Graz, Austria.

Educational background:

• Formal graduation (Diplom-Ingenieur): TU-Graz, December 2, 1983;
• Doctor technicae (Ph.D. equivalent): TU-Graz, June 6, 1988;
• Habilitation (Universitätsdozent) for Physical Chemistry: TU-Graz, November 10, 1998.

Research activities:

Current research activities are in the fields of optical spectroscopy of rare-earth doped glasses and in the magnetic properties of meso- and nano-structured materials. Past and current research cooperations with the following researchers have lead to publications in international journals:

• Prof. Peter Day [Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London (UK)];
• Prof. Colin D. Flint [Laser Laboratory at the Birkbeck College, University of London, London (UK)];
• Prof. Marco Bettinelli [Istituto Policattedra Facoltà di Scienze MM. FF. NN., University of Verona, Verona (Italy)];
• Prof. Salah Arafa [The American University in Cairo, Cairo (Egypt)];
• Dr. Mauricio Ferrari [CNR-Trento (Italy)].

Dr. Karl Gatterer.

Research Group Solid State Spectroscopy and Magnetochemistry in Material Science.