Elizabeth von Hauff

Elizabeth von Hauff (born 1977 in Toronto ) is a Canadian physicist. Since 2021, she has been the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology in Dresden, and a professor at TU Dresden.

Biography Elizabeth von Hauff was born in Toronto, Canada, and studied physics at the University of Alberta, obtaining a BSc with honors in 2000. She started the Masters program in renewable energy at Universität Oldenburg in 2001, and completed her doctorate in semiconductor physics at the same university with a thesis entitled “Field effect investigations of charge carrier transport in organic semiconductors” in 2005. She continued working there worked there as a postdoc, and completed her habilitation in experimental physics in 2011. In addition to these positions, she remains a visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Research Her research focuses on innovative technologies for electronics, energy technology and sensor technology. She focuses on fundamental questions at the interface between physics, chemistry and biology in relation to applications in photovoltaics, biosensor technology and wearables. In the field of solar energy generation, she studies the role of dynamic processes at the functional interfaces of energy conversion. She works with surface treatment processes and uses operando characterization of layers and interfaces.