Lars Bannenberg is associate professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 2015 he obtained both his MSc in financial economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MSc in applied physics at Delft University of Technology, the same university from which he obtained his PhD degree in 2019 on skyrmions and cubic chiral magnetism. Since his master thesis, he has also been studying (thin film) metal hydrides for a variety of applications: first as hydrogen storage materials and currently for optical hydrogen sensing applications. For example creating an all-optical hydrogen sensor based on a tantalum alloy that can detect hydrogen over 7 orders of magnitude in hydrogen concentration with sub-second response times.
His passion in research is to understand the structure of materials and relate it to their functional properties. To do so, he uses applies a wide variety of experimental techniques with a focus on X-ray and neutron scattering such as diffraction, spectroscopy and reflectometry. Besides his work on metal hydrides and optical hydrogen sensors, he is instrument scientists of the neutron reflectometer at the TU Delft Reactor Institute and studies battery and other (thin film) energy materials.
Furthermore, he enjoys teaching, currently coordinating the BSc Applied Physics Course ‘Nuclear Science and Technology’, the MSc Chemical Engineering Course ‘Advanced Materials Characterization and contribution to the MSc Chemical Engineering course ‘Solid State Materials’.
TU Delft Optical Hydrogen Sensing & Thin Film Energy Materials 