Prof. Volker Deckert
Prof. Dr. Volker Deckert received his PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Würzburg in 1994. After studies at the University of Tokyo & KAST, ETH Zürich, TU Dresden, and TU Dortmund, he became a professor at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena 2013, jointly leading the Nanoscopy department at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology. His research focuses on the development and application of nanospectroscopic tools mainly Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS).
Prof. V. Deckert is recipient of the Bunsen-Kirchhoff-Award (2006), the Research Award of the State of Thuringia (2012), the Charles Mann Award for Applied Spectroscopy (2013), the ICORS-Raman Award (2016), the Ellis R. Lippincott Award (2020), and the Changjiang Scholar Award (2021).