New Materials WG 5 Member, Nanostructures and Interfaces, LINXS Fellow

Jakob B. Wagner is head of Characterization at the National Center for Nanofabrication and Characterization at Technical University of Denmark (DTU Nanolab). He received his PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2002 based on work the in situ imaging of catalysts for methanol synthesis by means of environmental transmission electron microscopy. The work was performed in collaboration with Haldor Topsøe A/S. After completing his PhD, he continued as a post doctoral fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany before he moved on to a post doctoral fellow position in 2005 at Lund University, Sweden. In 2007 he became a senior researcher at the newly started Center for Electron Nanoscopy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Cen), now DTU Nanolab, where he became Scientific Director and Professor in 2013. His research include high-resolution electron microscopy, energy-filtered imaging and in situ electron microscopy, with a primary emphasis on characterization and in situ study of semiconductor nanowires, nanoparticle catalysts and low-contrast materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene.

He is responsible for the overall scientific use of the electron microscopy facility along with teaching and lecturing at various courses and workshops in advanced electron microscopy.

He has published more than 130 papers and book chapters, where electron microscopy has been a major tool for characterization and has organized several symposia at international conferences with in situ microscopy as the main theme.