Günther Dollinger
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Günther Dollinger is a German physicist
Physicist
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 and professor
Professor
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 at the Bundeswehr University Munich.

Life

Dollinger completed his doctoral studies in physics at the University of Technology Munich (TUM). He is currently head of the Institute of Applied Physics and Measurement Technology within the Faculty of Aeronautics
Aeronautics
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 and Astronautics
Astronautics
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 at Bundeswehr University Munich. He conducts research in different interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research projects. He is a member of the Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics, a inter-university excellence cluster, funded by the German government, based at University of Munich.

Awards

For his doctoral dissertation titled Carbon film as a stripper for heavy ions Günther Dollinger was awarded doctoral and postdoctoral price of the Association of Friends of the University of Technology Munich.

Research

Together with his team at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the TU Munich in Garching, Günther Dollinger developed a new type of microscopy
Microscopy
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 methods for material analysis. For the first time it allows the three-dimensional analysis of the distribution of hydrogen
Hydrogen
Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the symbol H. With an average atomic weight of , hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass. Stars in the main sequence are mainly...

in microstructured samples.

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