C u r r i c u l u m  v i t a e

Personal data

Name
Dinnebier, Robert Ernst.
Date/place of birth
March 20, 1964, Mannheim, Germany.
Nationality
German
 

Higher Education

1974 – 1983
High school: Elisabeth-Gymnasium, Mannheim.
(Languages: German, English, Latin, French).
A-level (Abitur), overall rating: superior (1.3 on a scale 1-6).

University

1983 – 1986
Basic-studies in chemical engineering, University of Karlsruhe.
1984 – 1986
Basic-studies in mineralogy, University of Heidelberg.
1986
Vordiplom (M.S.), overall rating: outstanding (1.0 on a scale 1-4).
1986 – 1989
Graduate in mineralogy, crystal chemistry and crystallography, University of Heidelberg.
1989
Diploma, overall rating: outstanding (1.0 on a scale 1-4).
Thesis (advisor Prof. Dr. W. Eysel): Computer-controlled Guinier-film measurement and evaluation. Computer-automation of densitometers to read Guinier-films in combination with the development of a software package for measurement and evaluation of Guinier-films.
1989 – 1993
Ph.D., overall rating: summa cum laude.
Thesis (advisor Prof. Dr. W. Eysel): GUFI, a program program system for measurement and evaluation of powder diffraction data. Computer-automation of powder diffractometers and extension of the GUFI program towards a complete program package for powders; Rietveld refinement of several inorganic crystal structures.

Habilitation

1993 -1995
'Post-Doc' at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory in connection with the Department of Physics at SUNY Stony Brook (Prof. Dr. P. Stephens)
Fields of interest: ab initio structure determination using Synchrotron powder data, especially of organometallics and fullerenes; phase analysis, anomalous dispersion, software development towards routine conversion of powder pattern into crystal structures.
1995-
Habilitation position (assistant professorship C1) at the new laboratory of crystallography at Bayreuth university. Habilitation thesis (1999): The ab initio structure determination of molecular solids from powder diffraction data.
2000-
Privat Dozent at the laboratory of crystallography at Bayreuth university.

Scholarship foundation & important awards

1983 - 1989
Supported by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Scholarship Foundation of the German People, for selected capable students).
1998
EPDIC award of the European Powder Diffraction Conference at Budapest, Hungary.

Extracurricular activities

1989 - 1993
Studying Spanish language.
1991-
 Development of the controlling and evaluation software for the PDS120 powder diffractometer (ENRAF-GUFI) for Nonius BV, Delft (The Netherlands.
1992-
Organization of currently 9 national and international workshops in the field of powder diffraction.
1995-
Referee (regularly) for the Journals Journal of Applied Crystallography, Z. Krist., Inorganic Chemistry and Powder Diffraction.
1998-
Co-editor of the Journal Powder Diffraction.
1998-
Head of the sub-commitee Synchrotron Radiation of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD), Philadelphia (USA).
1999-
Head of the `Arbeistkreis Pulverdiffraktometrie´ of the German Society of Crystallography (DGK)

Bayreuth, February 2000.