Dr. Rüdiger Berger-Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz

Rüdiger Berger studied physics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He got his diploma in Physics in 1994 in the field of high Tc-superconductors where he worked on imaging and manipulation methods using Scanning Probe Microscopy. Then he moved to Switzerland where he made his PhD thesis and a PostDoc in the field of micromechanical sensors in the group of Ch. Gerber and J. Gimzewski at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. 1998 he joined the Analysis Laboratory at the IBM Deutschland Speichersysteme GmbH (Mainz). Here he worked on the automation of test systems, in-situ flight height control and the investigation of ion-beam structuring of magnetic materials. Since October 2002 Rüdiger Berger is working at the MPI for Polymer Research.

At the MPI he is focussing on Scanning Probe Microscopy methods for characterization of Polymers properties. In addition, a micromechanical sensor technique is explored for polymer characterization. This technique allows to measure conformational or volume changes on a nanometer scale in polymers and can be used to extract nano-mechanical properties.

	Experimental Physics
	Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Butt