• Surface and interface engineering of metals, alloys, oxides and their coating systems for  joining and corrosion management
• Tailoring microstructure-property relationships of functional oxide films
• Interfacial design and application of nanostructured materials for novel micro- and nano-joining technologies

2012 - present : Head of the Empa laboratory for Joining Technologies & Corrosion, Empa Dübendorf, Switzerland

2003 - 2012 : Senior Scientist / Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Dep. Phase Transformations, Stuttgart, Germany

2000 - 2003 : Postdoctoral Researcher, Dep. Materials Science & Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

1996 - 2000 : Ph.D. Researcher, Dep. Materials Science & Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

1995 - 1996 : Geophysicist, Petrophysics Division, Royal Shell Exploration & Production Laboratory, Rijswijk, Netherlands

1996 - 2000 : Ph.D. in Materials Science & Technology, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands (1996 – 2000)

1989 - 1995 : M.Sc. in Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands (1989 – 1995)

2008 : Masing-Gedächtnispreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Materialkunde

1995 : AMOCO-award for the best master thesis in earth sciences

• Curatorial board member of the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP), ETHZ, Zürich (2023 – present); www.ams.ethz.ch
• President of the International Association for Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ) (2019 - present); www.nmj.org
• Expert member of Technical Commission C-VII 'Microjoining and Nanojoining', International Institute of Welding (IIW) (2017 – present); www.iiwelding.org/iiw-working-units
• Swiss delegate of the Technical Commission C-XVII 'Brazing, soldering, and diffusion bonding', International Institute of Welding (IIW) (2017 – present); www.iiwelding.org/iiw-working-units
• Treasurer of the ECASIA Association (2016 – present); www.ecasia.org
• Member of the International Steering Committee of the European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis (ECASIA) (2008 – present); www.ecasia.org
• Advisory Board member, Journal for Surface & Interface Analysis (2015 – present); link
• Management Board Member, Schweizerischer Verein für technische Inspektionen (SVTI), Switzerland (2015 – present); www.svti.ch
• Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM) (2007 – present); www.dgm.de
• Member of the IEEE Association (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (2019 - 2023); www.ieee.org
• Member of the Swiss Photonic Packaging Laboratory, Swissphotonics (2014 – 2023).
• Swiss delegate of Select Committee 'Research developments and applications in micro- and nano-joining technologies', International Institute of Welding (IIW) (2014 – 2017)
• Expert member of the Technical Commission 'C-XVII / Brazing, soldering, and diffusion bonding', International Institute of Welding (IIW) (2014 – 2017)

• Scientific Advisory Board, International Conference on Brazing, Diffusion Bonding and Micro-Nano Joining (BDB-MNJ), Hangzhou, China (2024).
• International Scientific Committee, European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis, Gothenburg, Sweden (2024).
• Mentor for the feM-LEAD program of PSI, Empa and WSL (i.e. Mentoring Programme for Women with Leadership Ambitions), Switzerland (2023)
• Co-chair, 5th International Conference on Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ'2023), Leipzig, Germany (2023)
• Guest Editor of special Issue "Nanotechnology for Novel Nanojoining and Microjoining", Applied Sciences, Section "Nanotechnology and Applied Nanosciences" (2019)
• Member of the International Advisory Committee, 4th International Conference on Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ'2018), Nara, Japan (2018)
• Scientific Advisory Board, 17th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis (ECASIA’17), Montpellier, France (2017)
• Co-organizer, Nano and Micro Welding and Joining Sessions, 70th Annual Assembly and International Conference of the International Institute of Welding (IIW), Shanghai, China (2017)
• Co-chair, 3th International Conference on Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ'2016), Waterloo, Canada (2016)
• Symposium Coordinator, 'Interface Design and Modelling' (Topic C2: Joining & Interfaces), Euromat Conference, Warsaw, Poland (2015)
• Local Organizer and Chair, 2nd International Conference on Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ'2014), Emmettten, Switzerland (2014)
• Symposium Coordinator, 'Interface Design' (Topic C2: Joining & Interface Design), Euromat Conference, Seville, Spain (2013)

• Dutch (mother tongue)
• English (fluent)
• German (fluent)
• French (Basic knowledge)

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• Metal-Induced Crystallization - Fundamentals and Applications, edited by Z.M. Wang, L.P.H. Jeurgens, E.J. Mittemeijer (Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2015). ISBN: 9789814463409 [source].

• L.P.H. Jeurgens, On the initial oxidation of aluminium in oxygen gas, Thesis, 2001, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. ISBN: 90-9015009-9 [source]