Wolfgang Knoll
Honorary Professor at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) / Professor at Nanyang Technological University Centre for Professional and Continuing Education
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- Nanyang Technological University Centre for Professional and Continuing Education
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Biography
Nanyang Technological University Centre for Professional and Continuing Education
Wolfgang Knoll is Managing Director of AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
He graduated from the University of Konstanz in 1976 with a PhD degree in Biophysics after having completed an education in Physics at the Karlsruhe University of Technology. From 1980-1981, he was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, California and the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, from 1981-1986 an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany and in 1986 he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, as a group leader.
From 1991-1999, Wolfgang Knoll was the Director of the Laboratory for Exotic Nanomaterials, hosted by the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Wako/Japan and from 1992 to 2010, he was a Consulting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University.
From 1993 to 2008, Wolfgang Knoll was the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. In 1998, he became a Professor of Chemistry (by courtesy) at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and in 1999, he was appointed Adjunct Professor by Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.
Since 2008, Wolfgang Knoll is the Scientific Managing Director of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna and became a Visiting Professor of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2009.
Education
- Postdoctoral Degree Technische Universität München (1986 — 1986)
- Doktor (Ph.D.) Universität Konstanz
- Diplom-Ingenieur Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Companies
- Visiting Professor Nanyang Technological University (2009)
- Honorary professor University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) (2009)
- Scientific Managing Director AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (2008)
- Adjunct Professor Hanyang University (1999)
- Professor University of Florida (1998)
- Consulting Professor Stanford University Department of Chemistry (1992)
- Visiting Principal Scientist A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research (2004 — 2013)
- Director Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (1992 — 2008)
- Professor National University of Singapore (1999 — 2003)
Videos
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | Current approaches to bionanoscience training
AIT Managing Director Prof. Wolfgang Knoll on the Alpbach Technology Symposium 2020
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | What skills should a postdoctoral researcher have?
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | Advice and inspiration
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | The evolution of nanoscience
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | The most important elements of a good PhD thesis
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | Synergy between biology and nanoscience
A Brief Conversation with Wolfgang Knoll | What makes a good research paper?
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