Kristallogrpahie & Geomaterialforschung

Junior Professor Ella M. Schmidt

Research Interests Disordered crystalline structures Diffuse scattering X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction Simulation of disordered structures Evolution of order in crystalline materials Material formation processes

Short CV

Since 02/2022	Junior Professor for Crystallography and Geomaterials Research at the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Germany
09/2019 - 10/2021	Postdoctoral research associate funded by the European Research Council at Oxford University, United Kingdom. Group Leader: Prof. Dr. Andrew L. Goodwin
11/2015 - 08/2019	PhD with summa cum laude "Disorder models from reciprocal space analysis in single crystal diffuse scattering". Advisor: Prof. Dr. R. Neder, Friedrich-Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Awards

• Ohm prize by the Departement of Physics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• PhD award by the Staedtler Stiftung
• Scholarship by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art for the `Realisation of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching.
• Faculty award for women in science of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Publications

15.	Schmidt, E.M. & Simonov, A. (2024) Disentangling competing driving forces in disordered crystalline materials using a mean-field approach. Physical Review Materials, 8(11): Paper 113805 (8 pages), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.113805
14.	Schmidt, E.M., Klar, P.B., Krysiak, Y., Svora, P., Goodwin, A.L. & Palatinus, L. (2023) Quantitative three-dimensional local order analysis of nanomaterials through electron diffraction. Nature Communications 14, 6512 (9 pages), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41934-y.
13.	Schmidt, E. M., Neder, R.B., Martin, J.D., Minelli, A., Lemee, M.-H. & Goodwin, A.L. (2023) Direct interpretation of the X-ray and neutron three-dimensional difference pair distribution functions (3D-Δ PDFs) of yttria-stabilized zirconia. In: Acta Crystallographica Section B, 10 pages; https://doi.org/10.1107/S205252062300121X
12.	Meekel, E.G., Schmidt, E. M., Cameron, L.J., Dharma, A.D., Windsor, H.J., Duyker, S.G., Minelli, A., Pope, T., Lepore, G.O., Slater, B., Kepert, C.J., Goodwin, A.L. (2023) Truchet-tile structure of a topologically aperiodic metal–organic framework. Science, 379: 357-361, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade5239 .
11.	Marx, B., Bostan, L., Herrmann, A.S., Schmidt, E.M. & Murshed, M.M., (2023) Stereocomplex formation of a poly(D-lactide)/poly(L-lactide) blend on a technical scale. International Polymer Processing, 38(3): 322-330, https://doi.org/10.1515/ipp-2022-4296 .
10.	Schmidt, E. M., Thomas, S., Bulled, J.M., Minelli, A. & Goodwin, A.L. (2022) Interplay of thermal diffuse scattering and correlated compositional disorder in KCl1–xBrx. Acta Crystallographica Section B, 78(3): (7 pages), https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520622003560.
9.	Schmidt, E. M., Bulled, J. M. & Goodwin, A.L. (2022) Efficient fitting of single-crystal diffuse scattering in interaction space: a mean-field approach. IUCrJ, 9(1), 21-30.
8.	Hua, X., Allan, P. K., Gong, C., Chatter, P. A., Schmidt, E. M. et al. (2020) Non-equilibrium metal oxides via reconversion chemistry in lithium-ion batteries. Nature Communications, 12, 1-11.
7.	Berlinghof, M. Langer, S., Harreiß, C., Schmidt, E. M. et al. (2020) TCrystal- Structure of the Active Layer of the Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaic Material DRCN5T:PC 71 BM Before and After Solvent Vapor Annealing. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 235, 15-28.
6.	Schmidt, E. M. & Neder, R.B. (2019) The interpretation of broad diffuse maxima using superspace crystallography. Physical Review B, 100, 054201.
5.	Schmidt, E. M. & Neder, R.B. (2017) Diffuse Single Crystal Scattering corrected for Molecular Formfactor Effects. Acta Crystallographica, A73, 231-237.
4.	Schiener, A., Schmidt, E., Bergmann, C., Seifert, S., Zahn, D., Krach, A. & Magerl, A (2017) The formation of CdS quantum dots and Au nanoparticles. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 232, 39-46.
3.	Zobel, M., Windmüller, A., Schmidt, E. M., Götz, K. Milek, T., Zahn, D. & Neder, R.B. (2016). The evolution of crystalline ordering for ligand-ornamented zinc oxide nanoparticles. CrystEngComm, 18, 2163-2172.
2.	Krüger, B., Schmidt, E. M. & Mecke, K. (2016). Spectral properties of unimodular lattice triangulations. Journal of Statistical Physics, 163, 514-543.
1.	Krüger, B., Schmidt, E. M. & Mecke, K. (2015). Unimodular lattice triangulations as small-world and scale-free random graphs. New Journal of Physics, 17(2), 023013.

Invited Presentations

• 09/2023 Diffuse Scattering Workshop, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
• 08/2023 Next-generation atomistic-level structural modeling using combined powder and single-crystal scattering data workshop 26th congress and general assembly of the IUCr, Melbourne, Australia.
• 01/2023 Colloquium of the German Chemical Society, Paderborn, Germany.
• 10/2022 Analysis of Diffraction Data Meeting, Grenoble, France.
• 08/2022 33rd European Crystallographic Meeting, Versailles, France.
• 08/2021 25th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography, Prague, Czech Republic.
• 12/2019 Asian Crystallography meeting, Singapore.
• 10/2019 77th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Oak Ridge, USA.

Review Activities

• Reviewer for Science, Acta Cryst. B, J. Appl. Cryst.

Committee Work

• Since 08/2022: Chair of the special interest group 13 “Disorder, Dynamics and Diffuse” of the European Crystallographic Association.

• Since 03/2023: Co-chair of the working group “Mineralogy” in the German Crystallographic Association.
• Since 08/2023: Member of the commissions on “Crystallographic Computing” and “Aperiodic Crystals” of the International Union of Crystallography.