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is scientific director and CEO of INM and professor for new materials at Saarland University. After his PhD at the University of Vienna, he performed research, amongst others, at Cambridge University, Stanford University and MIT and was director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart.
- Since 2007
Scientific Director and Chairman (CEO), INM – Leibniz-Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken (DE), and Chair for New Materials, Saarland University - 1990-2007
Director, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, joint appointment as Professor of Metals Physics, University of Suttgart (DE) - 1989/90
Visiting Professor, Stanford University (USA) - 1982-1989
Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart (DE) - 1981-1982
PostDoc, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University (UK) - 1980
Dr. phil., University of Vienna (AT) - 1974-1980
Study of physics and mathematics, University of Vienna (AT) - Corresponding member, Austrian Academy of Science
- Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation (DFG)
- ERC Advanced Grant, European Research Council
- Soo Distinguished Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, IL, USA
- Van Horn Distinguished Lectures, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Pollak Distinguished Lecture, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Lee Hsun Distinguished Lecture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Metals Research, Shenyang, China
- John Dorn Distinguished Lecture, Northwestern University, Evanston IL (USA)
- Wissenschaftspreis des Stifterverbands für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
- Highly Cited Materials Scientist, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
- Max Planck Research Award
- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award
- Two Proof-of-Concept Grants, European Research Council
- Heyn Commemorative Medal, German Materials Society (DGM)
- Board of Directors (Aufsichtsrat), LRK Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH
- Spokesman, Leibniz Research Alliance Nanosafety, Leibniz Association
- Member of the Editorial Board / Advisory Board of the Journals: Advanced Engineering Materials, International Journal of Materials Research, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, Journal of Surface and Interface in Materials
- Editor-in-Chief, Review Journal “Progress in Materials Science”, Oxford, UK
- Member of the Advisory Board, Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT)
- Nanomechanics of materials
- Plasticity in thin film systems
- Modern structural materials and micromechanics of biological and biomimetic systems
- Microstructured adhesion systems and contact theory
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