Peter Moeck (PhD) Professor of Physics pmoeck at pdx dot edu Department of Physics Portland State University P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751 phone: (503) 725 4227 departmental fax: (503) 725 2815 Science Resource and Teaching Building, SRTC, office 404 1719 SW 10^th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201 Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12.00 to 12:30 pm

Research interests Crystallographic image processing for scanning probe microscopy, structural fingerprinting of nanocrystals in the transmission electron microscope, precession electron diffraction, open-access crystallographic databases; nano and micrometer scale materials science and engineering; application of physical crystallography to materials problems of semiconductor technologies; goniometry of direct and reciprocal lattice vectors; self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots & size effect on semiconductor and metal phase diagrams … leader of the Nano-Crystallography Research group Currently taught courses Introduction to Modern Physics (to undergraduates) Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (to undergraduates both from STEM- and non-STEM fields) Introduction to Nano(-materials) Science and Engineering (to advanced undergraduates and graduates from all science and engineering disciplines) PhD/MS student supervisor Adviser/Instructor for independent research projects Assistant to the Chair of the Physics Department for German-American Student Exchange Programs

Education

1993-1994 Practical Information Science

(correspondence course), FernUniversitaet Hagen (open university)

1989-1992 PhD in Crystallography

rating magna cum laude (1), Humboldt-Universitaet Berlin

1978-1983 Diploma in Crystallography

rating cum laude (2), Leipzig University

Employment

Since 2014 Tenured Professor

Portland State University, Department of Physics

2008-2014 Tenured Associate Professor

Portland State University, Department of Physics

2002-2008 Tenure-track Assistant Professor

Portland State University, Department of Physics

2000-2002 Research Assistant Professor

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physics, Interface Physics Group

1998-2000 Research Fellow (Electron Microscopist, Materials Scientist)

University of Oxford, Department of Materials, Semiconductor Group

1997-1998 Research Associate (X-ray Crystallographer, Materials Scientist) 

Interdisciplinary Research Center for Semiconductor Materials of the

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (University of London)

1994-1997 Senior Research Assistant (X-ray Crystallographer, Materials Scientist)

University of Durham, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Group

1993-1994 Forensic Scientist / Public Analyst

Central Forensic Science Laboratories of the German state Brandenburg

1992-1993 Electron Microscopist, Computer Programmer, X-ray Crystallographer

Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for Crystallography and Materials 

Science and Technical University Berlin, Central Service Unit for Electron

Microscopy

1989-1991 Staff-PhD researcher (employed primarily to perform research)

Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for Crystallography and Materials

Science

1987-1989 Scientific Assistant

Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for Crystallography and Materials

Science

1983-1986 Entry level scientific staff member

Institute for Semiconductor Physics, Academy of Sciences

Professional Societies: Materials Research Society, American Physical Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Kristallographie

if interested in what I did some 10 years ago, have a look at some power point slides from a seminar (on aspects of the nanomaterials challenge, image-based nanocrystallography by means of transmission electron goniometry & how it might be developed into commercial products) I held at the FEI Company, Hillsboro Campus,

have a look at some power point slides from the second part of a lecture (on goniometry and direct crystallographic analyses in TEM) I held at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Berkeley,

click here for some 30 power point slides (on epitaxial and endotaxial semiconductor quantum dots) of a lecture I held at Oregon State University at Corvallis,

click here for overheads in *.pdf format from a lecture (on materials science issues of compound semiconductors), I held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

have a look at the overheads in *.pdf format from a popular science lecture (on creating atomic order in semiconductor quantum dots) I held at the Rochester Institute of Technology (I am sorry, there is always some mix-up with some symbols in *.pdf format.)

click here for a four slide power-point presentation on my research interests at that time

previously taught coursers

at Portland State University

Physical Metallurgy (Materials Science) for Engineers (to undergraduates)

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (to graduate and under graduate students)

at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductory College Physics (to undergraduates)

at the University of Oxford

Atomic force microscopy (to PhD students and interested colleagues, in partial fulfillment

of the requirements for certification as an adult education teacher in Great Britain)

to physics at Portland State University (PSU), to PSU

last updated: October 6, 2014

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