Volker Kahlenberg
Phone: +43 512 507-54603
Volker.Kahlenberg[at]uibk.ac.at
Scientific education and career
1984-1990: Study of Mineralogy at the University of Mainz, Germany
1990: Diploma in Mineralogy/Crystallography with Prof. Dr. H. Böhm at the University of Mainz, Germany: Structural investigations on synthetic pure sodium nephelines
1994: PhD in Mineralogy/Crystallography with Prof. Dr. H. Böhm at the University of Mainz, Germany: Phase transitions and pseudo-symmetry in bismuth titanates stannates
1994-1996: Research associate at the mineralogical institute of the Technical University in Berlin, Germany
1996 - 2003 Assistant professor with Prof. R.X. Fischer at the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen, Germany
2000: Visiting scientist in the group of Prof. John Parise at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, USA
2002: Habilitation in Mineralogy/Crystallography at the University of Bremen: Crystal chemistry and structural investigations of alkaline earth (Ca, Sr, Ba) aluminates, gallates and ferrates
From 01.03.2003: Full professor of Applied Mineralogy and Crystallography at the Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck, Austria
Honours, awards and fellowships
1987–1990: Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation
1995: Dissertation award of the Johannes Gutenberg University
Member of the Austrian Mineralogical Society (ÖMG)
Refereeing work
American Mineralogist, Canadian Mineralogist, Chemical Engineering Science, Chemistry of Materials, Crystal Growth and Design, European Journal of Mineralogy, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Solid State Chemistry, Mineralogical Magazine, Mineralogy and Petrology, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, Powder Diffraction, Solid State Sciences, Structural Chemistry, Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, Zeitschrift für Kristallographi, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Fields of scientific interest
Experimental and theoretical studies on structural phase transitions
Polymorphism of small molecule and pharmaceutical compounds
Crystal chemistry of silicates and oxides
Twinning and disorder phenomena in crystal structures
X-ray powder diffraction for quantitative phase analysis
Structure determination from powder diffraction data
Current roles
Since 2017 Member of the Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures of the International Union of Crystallography
2003–2011 Associate Editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy
2008–2010 Member of the Proposal Review Panel of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) in Brookhaven (USA)
2010–2011 Vice President of the Austrian Mineralogical Society (ÖMG)
2011–2012 Associate Editor of Mineralogy and Petrology
2011–2013 President of the Austrian Mineralogical Society (ÖMG)