Dr. Unruh was instrument scientist at the time-of-flight spectrometer TOFTOF at the neutron source. He habilitated at the chair E13 in experimental physics at the Technische Universität München with the topic “Structure and dynamics of colloidal dispersions on molecular scale“.

When starting in 2001 at the FRM II, Tobias Unruh developed a network based software  for instrument control. Since 2002 he was the leading instrument scientist at TOFTOF and responsible for construction, commissioning, and user operation. He has also built up a research group at the spectrometer.

The contacts to the neutron source will still be important for Tobias Unruh in Erlangen. He plans to strengthen the user community for science with neutrons. His professorship was created in the frame of the cluster of excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials”. At the chair for Crystallography and Structural Physics he will establish new laboratories for preparation of advanced materials and their characterization in the full range between molecular scale and macroscopic size.