Professional Experience

Detlef-M. Smilgies

2014-present
adjunct associate professor at the Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2004-present
staff scientist for CHESS D1 station
2000-2004 staff scientist for the G-line Project
at the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)
1996-2000 responsible scientist of the Troika II beamline 
at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility  (ESRF)
in Grenoble, France
1994-1996 postdoctoral fellow at Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
(on fellowship of the Danish Research Foundation)
1992-1994 postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry at
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
(partly on Humbold-Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humbold Foundation, Germany)
1991-1992 postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories
(on Otto-Hahn-Fellowship of the Max-Planck Society, Germany)
1991 Ph.D. in physics, Georg-August-Universität and
Max-Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany
(dissertation awarded Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany)
1986 diploma in physics, Georg-August-Universität and
Max-Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany