Dr Andreas Markwitz

Dr Andreas Markwitz is principal scientist and department head at GNS Science. His ongoing interests in nanotechnology and advanced matererials are in silicon nanosurface, interfaces and how our understanding of new materials can be applied to industrial products. Andreas has more than 200 publications in the field and has pioneered electron beam annealing and ion implantation at GNS under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. He has developed three ion implanters for implanting all elements of the periodic table with energies from 100 V to more than 100 kV and developed an electron beam annealer that can reproducibly manufacture nanosurfaces on the 1 nm scale. His interest in applying his surface science to industrial projects has lead him to be involved in the Materials Accelerator at Auckland University and research with the Titanium Development Association in Tauranga.

Research interests

Theme 1: Spin-dependent field emission from silicon nanostructures
Theme 1 and 2 : Materials modification with ion and electron beams

Post Doctoral Fellow

Toby Hopf

Technical Assistant

John Futter

Research Assistants

Vivian Fang
Peter Johnson