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Bio sketch

Dr. Wolfgang Lang received his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Vienna with investigations of the electrical transport properties of graphite and its intercalation compounds. Already in his early career, he established his independent research group focusing on unconventional novel superconductors. Wolfgang received his habilitation (venia docendi) from the Institute of Materials Physics, University of Vienna, in 1996. Dr. Lang was a research fellow at the Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA, in 1992, was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Vienna in 1997 and has held guest professorships at the University of Rochester, USA, in 1997, and at the Johannes-Kepler-University of Linz, Austria, in 2000. He was topical field executive in the network “Micro@Nanofabrication Austria” from 2004-2007, Austrian representative in the ESF research networking program “Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductivity” from 2007-2012 and several COST Actions from 2012-2022, and is presently Austrian management committee member in the COST Actions “Superconducting Nanodevices and Quantum Materials for Coherent Manipulation” and “High-Temperature SuperConductivity for AcceLerating the Energy Transition”. From 2007 to 2009 he headed the research unit "Electronic Properties of Materials" and from 2011 to 2014 he was the Vice Dean for Finance and Infrastructure of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Vienna.

Dr. Lang is the author/co-author of more than 140 publications in refereed scientific journals, co-editor of a book, and has served as a reviewer and advisor for numerous international journals, conferences, universities, and funding organizations. He is also an organizer and a regularly invited speaker at international conferences.

Research interests

Dr. Lang's current research interests focus on investigations of electronic transport properties of novel materials, especially under extreme conditions like at high current densities, in ultralow or strong magnetic fields. Ongoing research includes the investigation of vortex dynamics and pinning in high-temperature superconductors, fluxonic quantum devices, order parameter fluctuations, ion irradiation-solid state interactions, simulation of ion collision cascades, and fabrication of large-area nanostructures by masked or focused helium ion beams.