Clivia Hejny
Associate Professor
+43 512 507-54608
Clivia.Hejny[at]uibk.ac.at
Education and career
2006
University Assistant, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2005
Akademische Rätin auf Zeit, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2002
Postdoc with Dr. M.I. McMahon, The University of Edinburgh, UK
2001
Ph.D. in Crystallography at University of Berne, Switzerland, with Prof. Dr. Thomas Armbruster
1998
M.S. in Mineralogy and Crystallography at University of Vienna, Austria, with Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Tillmanns
Awards
2004
Best physics poster at the Spring meeting of the British Crystallographic Association, York
2005
Award of the European High Pressure Group for young scientists doing high-pressure research of high quality. Joint 20th AIRAPT - 43rd EHPRG International Conference on High Pressure Science and Technology, Karlsruhe
Memberships
- Österreichische Mineralogische Gesellschaft
- British Crystallographic Association,
Research interest
- High pressure crystallography
- Powder diffraction on powders and single crystals unter ambient conditions as well as under high pressure and high and low temperatures
- High-pressure phase-transitions and transition mechanisms of chalcogens S, Se, Te and tellurides
- Data analysis of twinned crystals and disordered structures
- Incommensurately modulated structures and their high-pressure behaviour
- Comprehensible description of polytypes and polysomes with the modular approach