Ulrike Diebold
Biography
Ulrike Diebold is a professor of surface physics at TU Wien. She received her PhD from this institution and spent the next 20 years as an academic in the U.S. She conducts research in experimental surface science with an emphasis on metal oxides. She is particularly interested in the atomic-scale surface properties of these complex materials, and in unraveling their (defect)structure/reactivity relationship. She is the recipient of major awards, including two ERC Advanced Grants and the Wittgenstein Prize, the highest research award in her country. She has been elected to AVS, APS, AAAS, and RSC fellowships, and to membership in five National and European academies. Since 2022, she has served as the vice president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.