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Ulrike Diebold

Ulrike Diebold

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Chemistry
Austria
2026
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Materials Science
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
94
Citations
47733
World Ranking
1357
National Ranking
5

Chemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
47379
World Ranking
1670
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2015 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Wittgenstein Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For groundbreaking research on the role of defects in the interplay between bulk and surface properties of transitionmetal oxides and on STM imaging of their surface structure

Overview

Ulrike Diebold is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and has made significant contributions to the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Catalysis.

Their work addresses a range of topics such as:

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Among the recent papers published by Ulrike Diebold are:

  • "Polarons in materials," 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Unraveling CO adsorption on model single-atom catalysts," 2021, Science
  • "Why and How Savitzky-Golay Filters Should Be Replaced," 2022, ACS Measurement Science Au
  • "Direct assessment of the acidity of individual surface hydroxyls," 2021, Nature
  • "Resolving the adsorption of molecular O 2 on the rutile TiO 2 (110) surface by noncontact atomic force microscopy," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Michael Schmid, Gareth S. Parkinson, Cesare Franchini, Giada Franceschi, and Matthias Meier.

The most frequent venues for the publication of their research are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Reviews Materials

Ulrike Diebold has been recognized by various scientific academies and organizations. Awards include becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019, membership in the European Academy of Sciences in 2014, and election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2015 with a focus on Chemistry.

They received the Wittgenstein Award in 2013. Additionally, Ulrike Diebold was honored as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007 and as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2004, the latter citation highlighting research on the role of defects in the interaction between bulk and surface properties of transition-metal oxides and the surface structure imaging by scanning tunneling microscopy.

Best Publications

  • The surface science of titanium dioxide

    Ulrike Diebold

  • The surface science of metal oxides

    V. E. Henrich;P. A. Cox;Ulrike Diebold

  • The surface and materials science of tin oxide

    Matthias Batzill;Ulrike Diebold

  • Influence of Nitrogen Doping on the Defect Formation and Surface Properties of TiO 2 Rutile and Anatase

    Matthias Batzill;Erie H. Morales;Ulrike Diebold

  • Novel stabilization mechanism on polar surfaces: ZnO(0001)-Zn.

    Olga Dulub;Ulrike Diebold;G. Kresse

  • Reaction of O2 with Subsurface Oxygen Vacancies on TiO2 Anatase (101)

    Martin Setviń;Ulrich Aschauer;Philipp Scheiber;Ye Fei Li

  • Interaction of Molecular Oxygen with the Vacuum-Annealed TiO2(110) Surface: Molecular and Dissociative Channels

    Michael A. Henderson;William S. Epling;Craig L. Perkins;Charles H. F. Peden

  • Polarons in materials

    Cesare Franchini;Cesare Franchini;Michele Reticcioli;Martin Setvin;Martin Setvin;Ulrike Diebold

  • Epitaxial growth and properties of ferromagnetic co-doped TiO2 anatase

    S. A. Chambers;S. Thevuthasan;R. F. C. Farrow;R. F. Marks

  • STM study of the geometric and electronic structure of ZnO(0001)-Zn, (0001̄)-O, (101̄0), and (112̄0) surfaces

    Olga Dulub;Lynn A Boatner;Ulrike Diebold

  • Imaging Cluster Surfaces with Atomic Resolution: The Strong Metal-Support Interaction State of Pt Supported on TiO 2 ( 110 )

    Olga Dulub;Wilhelm Hebenstreit;Ulrike Diebold

  • Direct view at excess electrons in TiO2 rutile and anatase.

    Martin Setvin;Cesare Franchini;Xianfeng Hao;Michael Schmid

  • Steps on anatase TiO2(101)

    Xue Qing Gong;Annabella Selloni;Matthias Batzill;Ulrike Diebold

  • Intrinsic defects on a TiO2(110)(1×1) surface and their reaction with oxygen: a scanning tunneling microscopy study

    Ulrike Diebold;Jeremiah Lehman;Talib Mahmoud;Markus Kuhn

  • Interaction of water, oxygen, and hydrogen with TiO2(110) surfaces having different defect densities

    J.‐M. Pan;B. L. Maschhoff;U. Diebold;T. E. Madey

  • Evidence for the Tunneling Site on Transition-Metal Oxides: TiO2(110)

    Ulrike Diebold;John F. Anderson;Kwok-On Ng;David Vanderbilt

  • Experimental Investigation of the Interaction of Water and Methanol with Anatase−TiO2(101)

    Gregory S. Herman;Zdenek Dohnalek;Nancy J. Ruzycki;Ulrike Diebold

  • Competing stabilization mechanism for the polar ZnO(0001)-Zn surface

    Georg Kresse;Olga Dulub;Ulrike Diebold

  • Local ordering and electronic signatures of submonolayer water on anatase TiO2(101).

    Yunbin He;Antonio Tilocca;Olga Dulub;Annabella Selloni

  • Evidence for oxygen adatoms on TiO2(110) resulting from O2 dissociation at vacancy sites

    William S. Epling;Charles H.F. Peden;Michael A. Henderson;Ulricke Diebold

Frequent Co-Authors

Annabella Selloni
Annabella Selloni Princeton University
Theodore E. Madey
Theodore E. Madey Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Xue-Qing Gong
Xue-Qing Gong East China University of Science and Technology
Cristiana Di Valentin
Cristiana Di Valentin University of Milano-Bicocca
Lynn A. Boatner
Lynn A. Boatner Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Yunbin He
Yunbin He Hubei University
Bernd Meyer
Bernd Meyer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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