This is the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Oeckler.
Head of working goup
Personal data
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Oliver Michael Oeckler
- Date and place of birth: October 12, 1970; Coburg (Bavaria), Germany
- Parents: Jürgen and Marliese Oeckler
Primary School
- 1977 – 1981 Volksschule Rödental-Oeslau
Higher Education
- 1981 – 1990 Arnold-Gymnasium, Neustadt bei Coburg
Civilian Service
- 1990 – 1991 Landkrankenhaus Coburg
University Education
- 1991 – 1994 Basic studies in chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Vordiplom (equiv. B.Sc.) in 1994
- 1994 – 1997 Graduate in chemistry and mineralogy/crystallography
- Diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in Chemistry (advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Behrens)
- Diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in Mineralogy (advisor: Prof. Dr. Heinz Schulz)
- 1995 Research project at the Institute of Crystallography of the Lomonosov University, Moscow
- 1997 – 2000 Ph. D. student at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart
- Ph. D. in Chemistry (advisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. H. C. Mult. Arndt Simon)
Employment, Research & Teaching
- 2000 – 2003 research associate in Professor Simon's Group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart
- 2003 postdoc at the Laboratory of Crystallography, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) in the group of Prof. Walter Steurer
- 2003 – 2009 research associate / lecturer associated with Professor Schnick's Group at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 2009/2010 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Inorganic Chemistry
- 2010 – 2011 Privatdozent at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- since 2012 Professor for Materials Science and Crystallography at the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Universität Leipzig
► Find a detailed CV (in german) HERE
► Find a list of all previous courses (in german) HERE
Countries visited (current score: 73)
| Afghanistan | Iraq | Palestinian Territories |
| Austria | Ireland | Philippines |
| Azerbaijan | Israel | Poland |
| Bangladesh | Italy | Qatar |
| Belgium | Japan | Russia |
| Bhutan | Jordan | Saudi Arabia |
| Brunei | Kazakhstan | Singapore |
| Bulgaria | Korea | Slovenia |
| Cambodia | Kyrgyzstan | South Africa |
| Canada | Laos | Spain |
| China | Latvia | Sri Lanka |
| Croatia | Lebanon | Switzerland |
| Cyprus | Lithuania | Syria |
| Czech Republic | Luxemburg | Tajikistan |
| Denmark | Macedonia | Thailand |
| Finland | Malaysia | Turkey |
| France | Maldives | U.A.E. |
| Germany | Malta | Ukraine |
| Great Britain | Moldova | USA |
| Greece | Morocco | Uzbekistan |
| Hungary | Myanmar | Vietnam |
| Iceland | Netherlands | Yemen |
| India | Nepal | Yugoslavia |
| Indonesia | Norway | |
| Iran | Pakistan |
All trips (final destinations only)
2023 Jordan - Saudi Arabia - Moldova
2022 Thailand - Qatar
2021 Maldives
2020 Bhutan
2019 Philippines - Brunei - Korea - Cyprus
2018 Korea
2017 Laos - Thailand
2016 China - Ukraine - France
2015 Nepal - Croatia
2014 Bangladesh - Turkey
2013 Israel - Palestinian Territrories - Indonesia - Great Britain
2012 Indonesia
2011 Cambodia - Thailand - Russia - Spain
2010 Malta - Russia - Vietnam
2009 Thailand - Turkey
2008 Japan - Finland - Latvia - Lithuania
2007 Thailand - Morocco
2006 Azerbaijan - Iran - Sri Lanka - UAE - Belgium
2005 Malaysia - Vietnam - Thailand - Italy - Great Britain (North)
2004 Cambodia - Thailand - Singapore
2003 Myanmar - Thailand - South Africa - Switzerland - Netherlands - Austria
2002 Yemen - Iran - Afghanistan - Russia (St Petersburg) - Switzerland
Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - UAE
2001 Iraq - Syria - Lebanon - Norway - Poland - Germany
2000 Thailand - Laos - France - Germany (Expo2000)
1999 Great Britain (Scotland) - France (no other trips because of computer crash)
1998 Czech Republic - Great Britain (South) - India
1997 Germany (no other trips because of final exams)
1996 Japan
1995 Russia
1994 USA (West) - Russia - Germany (Southwest) - Luxemburg - Czech Republic
1993 USA (East) - Canada - Denmark
1992 Iceland - Germany (East) - Austria
1991 Ireland
1990 Germany (Berlin)
1989 Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales)
1988 no trip (cancelled)
1987 Turkey (East, Kurdistan)
1986 Turkey (East / South)
1985 Turkey (Central / West)
1984 Turkey (West coast)
1983 Italy (Northeast)
1982 Greece
1981 Greece
1980 Italy (Northwest)
1979 Italy (Sicily)
1978 Italy (Northeast)
1975 Italy (South)
Current members of the group
Alumni
- Dr. Matthias Schneider (Ph.D. 2011): Real structure - property relationships of metastable ternary antimony tellurides and related compounds
- Dr. Tobias Rosenthal (Ph.D. 2014): Transmission electron microscopy and properties of thermoelectric chalcogenides and luminescent oxonitridosilicates
- Dr. Thorsten Schröder (Ph.D. 2014): Synthesis, thermal behavior and thermoelectric properties of disordered tellurides with structures derived from the rocksalt type
- Dr. Philipp Urban (Ph. D. 2015): Structure elucidation of disordered multinary layered tellurides by X-ray diffraction
- Dr. Felix Fahrnbauer (Ph. D. 2015): From point defects to heterostructures:Thermoelectric tellurides and the use of synchrotron radiation for the elucidation of their structure
- Dr. Simon Welzmiller (Ph. D. 2015): Solid solutions of pnicogen tellurides – Resonant X-ray diffraction and physical properties
- Dr. Lukas Neudert (Ph. D. 2017, co-supervised with Prof. Schnick): Transmission Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Diffraction – Joint Characterization of Nitride Networks and Thermoelectric Tellurides
- Dr. Frank Heinke (Ph. D. 2018): Mineral-Inspired multinary selenides and tellurides as model systems for thermoelectric materials and the benefit of synchrotron radiation for their structure analysis
- Dr. Daniel Souchay (Ph. D. 2019): Thermoelectric properties of layered compounds and their heterostructured variants
- Dr. Stefan Schwarzmüller (Ph. D. 2019): The influence of substitutions with Li, Na, Ag, Cu, Sn and In in germanium antimony tellurides on phase formation, atom mobility and thermoelectric properties
- Dr. Markus Nentwig (Ph. D. 2019): Structure elucidation of long-periodic layered chalcogenides, oxonitridophosphates and oxide nitrides with synchrotron radiation
- Dr. Peter Schultz (Ph. D. 2022): Structure determination of complex modular and modulated structures by resonant- and synchrotron microdiffraction
- Dr. Lucien Eisenburger (Ph. D. 2022, co-supervised with Prof. Schnick): NH4F-Assisted High-Pressure Synthesis of Novel Nitrides and Atomic-Resolution Chemical Mapping by STEM
- Dr. Daniel Günther (Ph. D. 2023): Structural chemistry, thermal behavior and decomposition of oxonitridophosphates and related compounds
- Dr. Christina Fraunhofer (Ph. D. 2023): Temperature dependency of structures and properties of thermoelectric chalcogenides with transition metals