User:Stefan.wolfrum

Stefan Wolfrum was born 21st may 1958 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His parents were Dr. Günther Wolfrum and Hannelore Münster.

Curriculum Vitae
After the normal school-carreer he studied Chemistry at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, the later Radboud University Nijmegen. He graduated 1981 and worked some years at the Philips Research Laboratories (the so-called NatLab) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. His research subjects were related to the use of ceramics in industrial electronics, like alumina in sodium vapour lamps, ferrites in television-CRT's and alumina sol-gel technology. He has several patents in this field. The process of applying a thermally black layer on indirectly heated cathodes of CRT-tubes he invented in cooperation with J.J. Ponjee and A.C.L. van der Poel is used under international patents by all major CRT-manufacturers. After the research period, he was involved in as well research as automation Management at a Philips production site (1990-1998) and at a Dutch mortgage bank (Achmea), 1998-2005. Since 2005 he lives in France with a special interest in La Françonne.

Selected Publications
1. Cryst. Struct. Comm (1982), 11, 1519 2. Laboratory Microcomputer 2 (1983), 4 3. Analytica Chimica Acta, 156 (1984), 87 4. J. Mat. Sci. Lett. 6 (1987), 706 5. J. Mat. Sci. Lett. 7 (1988), 1130 6. Journal of Chemometrics (JoCheu) 2 (3) 171 (1988) 7. TRAC 7 (1) 13 (1988) 8. J. Mat. Sci. Lett. 8 (1989), 667

US Patent 4983420 on thermal black layers. Dutch Patents.