Thomas Pichler

The physicist Thomas Pichler and his international team will receive an ERC Synergy Grant of 14 million Euros to build a new electron nano-spectrometer at the University of Vienna, which combines microscopy with spectroscopy as a new key technology for materials analysis. Nanomaterials are at the heart of innovation in basic science and technology, for instance to find energy solutions in the context of the European Green Deal. For their application, it is necessary to see the atomic structure of the nanomaterial as well as to determine its local properties. However, this is not feasible with any existing technology. The ERC Synergy Grant MORE-TEM, led by Thomas Pichler of the University of Vienna, will now close this gap.