Principal Investigator (PI)

For up-to-date overview of Assistant Prof. Dr. Bayer’s published work see his Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.at/citations?user=zbm4vKoAAAAJ, opens an external URL in a new window

To date Assistant Prof. Dr. Bayer's work has resulted in ~70 peer-reviewed international journal publications including ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Phys. Chem. C, Chem. Mater. and Nano Lett. with >4600 citations and an h-index of 38 (Google-Scholar).

Before joining the Institute of Materials Chemistry at the TU Wien as junior research group leader, Dr. Bayer held a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria and prior to this he was a College Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. At present Prof. Bayer holds an Tenure-Track Assistant Professorhsip via the TU Wien Excellence Initiative. He holds a PhD degree and a Master degree from the University of Cambridge, UK as well as a Bachelor degree from the Graz University of Technology, Austria.

To date Assistant Prof. Dr. Bayer has acquired a total of ~3.5M EUR third-party funding as PI incl. from European Research Council (ERC), FFG (Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft/Austrian Research Promotion Agency), European Commission/ Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-Actions and OeAD (Agentur für Bildung und Internationalisierung).

For an overview of funded projects please see the Funding page.

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Team

Positions presently funded by projects (PI Bernhard C. Bayer):

• Roman Neuhauser, PhD student, funded by ERC CoG HighEntropy2D: Two-dimensional high entropy alloys and ceramics (Funding)
• Markus Eiberger, PhD student, funded by FFG Phosphate2D: Functionalized 2D nanomaterials as sensor materials for phosphate detection in water (Funding)
• Yan Chen, PhD student, funded by ERC CoG HighEntropy2D: Two-dimensional high entropy alloys and ceramics (Funding)
• Bodo Baumgartner, PhD student, funded by FFG 3Dadditive2D: Micro-3D-Printing of 2D Materials with Aerosol Jet Printing for novel Hydrogen-(Photo-)Electrocatalysis-Electrodes (Funding)
• Njomza Isufaj, PhD student, funded by FFG HeatScreen2D: Screen-Printed Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heat Spreaders (Funding)
• Bernhard Fickl, PhD student, funded by FFG HARD2D: Two-dimensional materials as ultrathin corrosion barriers on steels by adapting industrial surface hardening processes (Funding)
• Markus Hofer, PhD student, funded by FFG SolarSulfide2D: Scalable production of two-dimensional sulfides for sustainable photocatalytic applications (Funding)
• Martin Nastran, PhD student, funded by FFG DekoSchirm: Graphene/TiO₂ coatings for concurrent photocatalytic self-decontamination and electromagnetic shielding (Funding)
• Manuel Baumgartner, student assistant, funded by FFG HeatScreen2D: Screen-Printed Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heat Spreaders (Funding)

Alumni PhD students and post-docs:

• Dr. Kenan Elibol, Post-Doc (at University of Vienna), funded by FFG VISION: Visualizing nano-mechanics of two-dimensional membranes by in situ Atomic Force Microscopy-Scanning Electron Microscopy (at University of Vienna), (Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.at/citations?hl=de&user=kMSihh0AAAAJ)
• Jakob Rath, PhD student, (TU Wien funded, co-supervised with Dominik Eder), atomic layer deposition of metal organic frameworks (ALD MOFs), now at Analytical Instrumentation Center, TU Wien
• Dr. Tushar Gupta, PhD student (TU Wien funded, co-supervised with Prof. Dominik Eder), 2D-pnictogens, (Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.at/citations?hl=de&user=l3Eu2xwAAAAJ)

Present and alumni Master students:

• Njomza Isufaj
• Markus Hofer

Present and alumni Bachelor students:

• Thomas Weinberger
• Paul Ziegelbauer
• Florian Steiner
• Leon Sigmund
• Simon Demmer
• Michael Neumann
• Manuel Baumgartner
• Lukas Steininger
• Filip Blazevic
• Marko Ilic
• Laura Aichinger
• Tomas Gregan
• Veniamin Kuznetsov
• Dorian Emri
• Nick Parak
• Stephanie Gstöttenmayr
• Daniel Matulka
• Samuel Heinzle
• Paul Peschek
• Johannes Jeryczynski
• Jakob Steinwandter
• Viktor Fortin
• Nicole Rosza
• Tanja Steger
• Alexander Holzer
• Michael Löv

Present and alumni academic visitors:

• Moulika Hazra, visiting PhD student, University of Cagliari, Italy (together with Alexey Cherevan), (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moulika-hazra-4b3945124)
• Tomas Chvojka, visiting Master student, UCT Prague, Czech Republic

• Surendra Kumar, visiting PhD student, OeAD Ernst Mach Fellow, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India, (Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Surendra-Kumar-16)

• Izabella Walendzik, Erasmus+ Master student, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland,
  (Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Izabela-Walendzik)

• Filippo Iervolino, visiting PhD student, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  (Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=QSqokbEAAAAJ)

The 2D+ Materials (Nanomaterials Synthesis and Integration) junior research group is gratefully placed within the Molecular Materials Division, Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien (Prof. Dominik Eder).