RALPH H. SCHEICHER

Assistant Professor

e-mail: ralph.scheicher@fysik.uu.se phone: +46 (0)18 471 58 73 fax: +46 (0)18 471 59 99 office: Å13205 (read: Ångström Lab, house 1, floor 3, room 205) postal address: Department of Physics and Astronomy Uppsala University Box 516 SE-751 20 Uppsala Sweden

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03/2013: Ralph is invited to talk about "Edge-functionalization aspects in DNA sequencing with graphene nano-electrodes" at the APS March Meeting 2013 held 18th-22nd of that month, in Baltimore, Maryland. (link)
01/2013: Robert is giving a talk about one of his thesis topics, namely "Hydrogen storage properties of the pseudo binary Laves phase (Sc_1-xZr_x)(Co_1-yNi_y)₂ system" at the PhD Student Days held at the local Department of Physics and Astronomy.
01/2013: Ralph is invited to talk about "DNA sequencing with graphene nanopores explored using ab initio methods" at a conference on Electronic Structure Approaches to Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Solids held in the second week of January at ACRHEM, University of Hyderabad, India. (link)
10/2012: Rodrigo from Brazil joins as a new postdoc. Bem-vindo!
09/2012: Research Media publishes a report about our research project on nanopore-based DNA sequencing in the Nordic Edition of their International Innovation magazine (link) (pages 15-17) (pdf)
06/2012: Ralph is invited to talk about "Functionalization Approach in Sequencing Technology Design of Nanopores Aimed at Rapid and Economical Analysis of DNA: fastDNAread" at the CECAM workshop DNA sequencing and detection with nanoprobes held at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, from June 11 till 13, 2012 (link)
10/2011: Ralph is invited to talk about "Electronic transport calculations for DNA between graphene nano-electrodes" at the Jornadas do Centro de Física held at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, on the 21st of October 2011. (link)
08/2011: The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala awards Ralph the Benzelius Prize for "theoretical contributions to the use of molecular electronics to sequence DNA using nanopores in graphene". (link)
06/2011: Robert from Sweden joins as a new PhD student. Välkommen!
03/2011: Johann from Germany joins as a new Degree Project (examensarbete or exjobb) student. Willkommen!
07/2010: Ralph joins the Physics Faculty at Uppsala as a newly minted assistant professor.

last updated: 2013-02-14