Bio

Henning Galinski hails from Marl-Polsum, Germany. He studied Physics at Westfälische-Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany, where he graduated in 2007. He then carried out his PhD thesis in the Group of Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials at ETH Zürich under the supervision of Prof. Ludwig Gauckler. From 2012-2016 he held a position as associate in applied physics in the Capasso Group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He joined the Laboratory for Nanometallurgy of Prof. Ralph Spolenak at the ETH Zürich in 2016, where he currently works as lecturer and group leader in the field of optical nanomaterials.

From 2012-2016, he was principle investigator of the industry-funded "Size Matters!" project, a multi-institutional research program studying size effects in nanostructured materials. From 2019-2023 he acted as principle investigator on a project entitled "Large-Area Near-Zero Materials using Metal Induced Crystallization" funded by the ETH Zürich Foundation. Together with Rafael Libanori, he received funding by INNOVEDUM to design a new project-based learning course entitled "Materials+" at the Department of Materials.

Galinski has received the Werner Köster Prize from the German Society for Materials Science (DGM) and the Carl Hanser Publishing Company in 2008. He has also been awarded with the ETH medal by ETH Zurich for his doctoral thesis in 2012. He was runner up in the 2012 Materials Research Prize by the Material Research Center in Zurich.