Timo Schumann

Senior Staff Engineer R&D Materials

Zürich Metropolitan Area

About

Physicist, material scientist and technology enthusiast. Over ten years of experience in development technology from the fundamentals into scalable, application relevant solutions. Developing materials and technologies for the challenges of tomorrow.

Experience

  • Lumiphase (Zurich, Switzerland)
    • Senior Staff Engineer
      Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Senior Engineer
      Aug 2020 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • UC Santa Barbara (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Project Scientist
      Jul 2019 - Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

      • Supervised and coordinated research efforts in two different materials science projects on topological Dirac semimetals and complex oxides for topological superconductivity • Identified and solved technical problems in any stage of the projects • Coordinated collaborations with national and international research groups and institutions • Combined advisory and management duties with laboratory and scientific work

    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Nov 2014 - Jul 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      • Developed a synthesis method for high-mobility TCO films based on BaSnO3 • Started and matured a project to develop thin films of the topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2. Set up and refined an MBE method to grow world leading quality films • Supervised graduate students on the project, >15 scientific papers have been published and 4 federal grants to support the project have been received

  • PHD Student at Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik
    Nov 2010 - Oct 2014 · 4 yrs

    Synthesis of large-area graphene films by molecular beam epitaxy and thermal surface graphitization of SiC substrates Investigate and optimize structural and electrical properties of large-area graphene films

  • Research Assistant at Forschungszentrum Jülich
    2009 - 2010 · 1 yr

    Developing selective-area growth of GaN nanowires for micro-optoelectronic applications Model the influence of surface diffusion on the selective growth Investigate the influence and origin of defects by Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence, and cathodoluminescence.