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![]() Dr. Armin Knoll IBM Research – Europe, Zurich Switzerland |
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Bio
Armin Knoll received a Master's degree in physics from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany (1998) and a Ph.D. from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 2004. After a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of Basel for 15 months (2003-2004) he joined the Advanced Media Concepts group of the Millipede project (2005-2006) at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory as a Visiting scientist. Armin Knoll joined IBM ZRL’s Science & Technology department in April 2006 as research staff member. Since 2010 he is leading the nanofabrication effort at IBM Research – Zurich and developed thermal Scanning Probe Lithography to technical market readiness. In 2012 he received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Commission for the control of objects in nanofluidic confinement.