Roland Bliem received his PhD with honors (sub auspiciis praesidentis) from the Vienna University of Technology in 2016. He discovered the cation vacancy-based stabilization of the magnetite (001) surface, a model system for single-atom catalysis, and described the surface chemistry of various catalytically active metal adatoms stabilized by this surface. Supported by an Erwin Schrödinger fellowship, he moved to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology for a postdoc, where used in situ spectroscopy techniques to study the stabilization of solid oxide fuel cell materials by metal adsorption.
Since 2019, Roland Bliem, leads the group for Materials and Surface Science for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography at ARCNL. He is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since May 2026, he is a guest in the XUV Optics group (0.2 fte), contributing to projects related to surface science. His research focus is the physics and chemistry driving the evolution of surfaces under the extreme conditions of EUV lithography, including reactive environments, high temperatures, and high-intensity radiation.
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