Tilo Baumbach
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Tilo Baumbach is professor of experimental physics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He received his PhD for research in semiconductor physics at the University of Leipzig, worked as a scientist in the inelastic neutron spectroscopy group at the Institute Laue Langevin in Grenoble and later moved to applied and industrial research and development at the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing in Dresden, where he used X-ray scattering, diffraction and imaging techniques. As part of a habilitation fellowship he carried out research on reciprocal space imaging of thin films and nanostructures at the ESRF Grenoble and habilitated in 2000. Together with his PhD students, he established the techniques of full-field rocking curve imaging and synchrotron radiation computed laminography. Together with his groups, he designed diffraction and imaging beamlines, experimental stations, and in situ instrumentation, which they operate at synchrotron facilities (ESRF, KIT Light Source, PETRA III) and laboratory sources for applications in nanoscience, materials research and, increasingly, life sciences. Tilo Baumbach became head of the Fraunhofer IZFP branch institute in Dresden in 1999, director of ANKA (today KIT Light Source) in 2004, and is now head of the Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation (IPS) at KIT.
