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
N.N. (currently not staffed)
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