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Christian Schönenberger holds a degree in electrical engineering from applied sciences (1979) and a diploma in physics (1986). He completed his PhD at the IBM Zurich Research Lab under Dr. H. Rohrer and Dr. S. Alvarado, with the dissertation entitled 'Understanding Magnetic Force Microscopy', which earned him the ETH-Zurich Swiss Physical Society prize in 1991. Following his PhD, he worked at the Philips Research Lab in Eindhoven (Netherlands) as a postdoc and became a permanent staff member. In 1994, he was awarded a fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Profil-II), and subsequently in 1995, he was elected to a full chair at the University of Basel. Schönenberger established a research group focused on charge transport in nanoscaled devices and has co-authored 80 refereed journal publications. He currently directs the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel and the Swiss-NSF center for Nanoscale Science Technology. His research group is an internationally recognized leader in hybrid quantum devices, which include normal metal superconducting ferromagnetic electrodes, exploring non-trivial correlations through various state-of-the-art techniques.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.