UNH Professor Receives Honorary Professorship From Austria
Olof Echt, Professor
Physics and Materials Science
University of New Hampshire
INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA--Olof Echt, Professor of Physics and Materials Science, has received an Honorary Professorship from the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria. During the award ceremony on March 6 2007, President Manfried Gantner and Vice President for Research Tilmann Märk awarded Honorary Professorships to Echt and two other professors from Italy and the US for their academic accomplishments and longtime contributions to education and research at the Leopold Franzens University.
In his Laudatio, Märk pointed out that Echt has been a Guest Professor at the University since 1996. Märk mentioned Echt’s expertise in the area of atomic clusters and fullerenes, with a focus on understanding the stability and dissociation of singly and multiply charged clusters. Several students who graduated from the Institute of Ion Physics Innsbruck have benefited from Echt’s advice with the execution and interpretation of experiments involving nanoparticles. A large number of joint publications and book articles have resulted from this collaboration.
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