Education
RWTH Aachen, Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Diplom, sum cum laude, 1990
RWTH Aachen, Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Dr.-Ing., sum cum laude, 1992
RWTH Aachen, Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Habilitation, 1997
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Awards, Honors, Memberships
Scholarship, German Steel Institute VDEH
Springorum Award, German Steel Institute VDEH
Borchers Award, University Aachen RWTH
Adolf-Martens Award, BAM
Friedrich-Wilhelm Award, University Aachen RWTH
Best - Paper Award, Steel Research 1995
Masing Award, German Society for Materials Science DGM
Young Scientist and Engineer Award, ICOTOM
Heisenberg Scholarship, German Research Foundation DFG
Materials Science and Technology Price, Fed. of European Materials Science Societies FEMS
Dr. Meyer-Struckmann Award, University Cottbus
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation DFG
Elected as Nr. 1 among the TOP-10 of German Scientists below the age of 45
Lee Hsun Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008
Member of German Science Advisory Board (Wissenschaftsrat), since 2010
Weinberg Lecture Award, University of British Columnbia, Vancouver, 2011
DGM Award (Award of the German Society for Materials Science), 2011
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Employment
Professor, RWTH Aachen
Professor (adjunct), Carnegie Mellon University
since 2010 Cief Executive Max–Planck–Institut für Eisenforschung
since 1999 Director at the Max–Planck–Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH and scientific member of the Max–Planck–Society
1997 –1999 Scientist at the Department for Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
and
Scientist at the US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida USA
1992-97 Scientist and group leader, RWTH Aachen
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Service Activities (selected)
since 2007 Review Board of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
since 2007 Member of Governors Board of Acta Materialia Inc.