Gustav Graeber

Graduate Student 

Education

Ph. D. in Maschinenbau, ETH Zürich, 2019
M. S. in Maschinenbau, RWTH Aachen University, 2014
B. S. in Maschinenbau, Technische Universität Berlin, 2013

Biography

Gustav joined the DRL in March 2021 as a postdoctoral fellow on a Postdoc Mobility Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. After studying mechanical engineering at TU Berlin (Germany), KTH Stockholm (Sweden), and RWTH Aachen (Germany), he graduated as a PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland). His doctoral research focused on freezing physics and derived surface nano-engineering for spontaneous deicing. After his PhD, Gustav joined the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) as a postdoc to study wetting and phase change in electrochemical systems. At the DRL, Gustav investigates adsorption on tailored nanostructures and the rational design of hydrogels for atmospheric water harvesting.