Jan Schultheiß

Jan Schultheiß is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Jan has received his B.Sc. degree in materials science and engineering in 2011 and his M.Sc. degree in glass and ceramics in 2014 at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in the group of Prof. Greil. During his studies he was working as a research scholar in the group of Prof. Messing at Pennsylvania State University and Prof. Gauckler at ETH. He received his PhD in 2018 in the group of Prof. Rödel working on functional ceramics together with his supervisor Dr. Koruza. In his PhD he investigated the mechanism of polarization reversal in polycrystalline ferroelectric/ferroelastic ceramics. The mechanism was illustrated as a well-defined sequence of switching events physically originating from an interplay between local electric and mechanical fields. Jan has authored and co-authored ten publications in high ranked peer-reviewed journals in the field of ceramics and applied physics.

In 2016 and 2017 Jan won the student poster competition of the International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics (ISAF). In 2018, together with his co-authors he received the Edward C. Henry Best Paper Award from the ACerS. In 2019 he was awarded with the Prize for Young Talents from the German Materials Society (DGM) and the Morgan Medal and Global Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award from the ACerS.

He received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation to work in the next two years at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Together with his supervisor, Prof. Meier, he will engineer the conductivity of domain walls in single- and polycrystalline hexagonal manganite model materials which is an important requirement for future all-domain wall devices.