Jan Balajka

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Jan Balajka is an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), where he and his group develop techniques to explore materials across a wide range of environments with atomic precision. He earned a PhD in physics in 2018 from TU Wien. Before rejoining TU Wien in 2020, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University.


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A Quantum Microscope Reveals Water Breaking Apart

A scheme combining a scanning probe microscope with a quantum sensor can locally trigger water dissociation and observe the elementary steps of such a reaction. Read More »