Stephan Rauschenbach

Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK

Stephan Rauschenbach is an Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He is the head of the ion beam deposition lab where he develops novel instrumentation for single molecule imaging of large and complex molecules. He is a tutorial fellow at Wadham College, where he tutors students in Physical Chemistry.

Before joining the University of Oxford in 2017, he was group leader the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, where he pioneered the electrospray ion beam deposition (ES-IBD) method and applied it for imaging of single molecules in scanning probe microscopy as well as in electron microscopy.

For this work he received the Mattauch-Herzog Award of the German Society of Mass Spectrometry in 2017. During his PhD, he was a fellow of the Hans-L.-Merkle foundation for Excellence in Science. He received his Dr.sc. in Physics from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Earlier stations include the TU Munich, University of Augsburg, Siemens AG/Infineon, and the Sony Fusion Domain Lab in Tokyo.