Philipp Pelz

Principal Investigator

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Research Interests

computational imaging & microscopy, autonomous systems, large-scale inverse problems, electron & X-ray microscopy

Brief Bio

Philipp Pelz received Bachelor degrees in Physics (2011) and Informatics (2012), and Master degrees in Applied & Engineering Physics, Materials Science & Chemistry (2013). In 2018 he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Hamburg & The Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany. Subsequently, he spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the National Center for Electron Microscopy. Since August 2022 he is Tenure-Track Professor for Computational Materials Microscopy at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Experience

  • Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Erlangen, Germany
    W2 Professor (Tenure Track) | 2022 - present

  • University of California, Berkeley & National Center for Electron Microscopy | Berkeley, CA, USA
    Postdoctoral Researcher | 2019-2022

  • Max Planck Institute for the Structure & Dynamics of Matter | Hamburg, Germany
    IMPRS-UFAST Ph.D. Scholar | 2013 - 2018

Education

  • Technische Universität München | Munich, Germany
    M.Sc. Applied & Engineering Physics | 2011 - 2013
    B.Sc. Informatics | 2009 - 2012
    B.Sc. Physics | 2008 - 2011

  • University of Montpellier 2 | Montpellier, France
    Master 2 Chemistry | 2012 - 2013

  • Univeristy of Torino | Torino, Italy
    M.Sc. Materials Science | 2011 - 2013