Matthias Kleiner

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Matthias Kleiner in July 2014

Matthias Kleiner (born May 24, 1955 in Recklinghausen ) has been President of the Leibniz Association and (on leave) professor for forming technology at the Technical University of Dortmund since July 1, 2014 . From 2007 to 2012 he was President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

Life

Kleiner grew up in Dortmund , where he obtained his Abitur in 1974 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium there. He then studied mechanical engineering at the university in his hometown from 1976 to 1982 . He then worked until 1987 as a research assistant at the Institute of Forming Technology and was at this time with the work multiprocessor controllers in metal forming to Dr.-Ing. PhD . He was then appointed chief engineer and qualified as a professor in 1991 in forming technology with the subject of process simulation in forming technology .

From 1994 to 1998 Kleiner was C4 professor at the newly founded Technical University of Cottbus and member of the founding rectorate . Since 1998 he has been Professor of Forming Technology at TU Dortmund University and, since 2004, head of the newly founded Institute for Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction. From 2000 to 2002 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering there.

From July 2005 to December 2006, Kleiner was Vice President of the German Research Foundation, and from January 2007 to December 2012, succeeding Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, as President of the German Research Foundation . He has been President of the Leibniz Association since July 2014, succeeding Karl Ulrich Mayer .

Kleiner is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) . Since 2006 he has continued to be a member of the Leopoldina and the Academia Europaea . In addition, he is a member of numerous special research areas . Since 2015 he has been chairman of the university council of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main .

Kleiner has been awarded several research prizes, including the 1997 Leibniz Prize . In 2010 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

In March 2011, Chancellor Merkel appointed Kleiner to the ethics committee for a secure energy supply . Kleiner heads this commission together with Klaus Töpfer . In an interview he said:

“As an engineering scientist , the disasters in Japan also made me very thoughtful and fed my doubts about nuclear energy . Any technology that is incalculable and uncontrollable for people today is a mortgage that we cannot leave our children with. "

Kleiner is married and has three children.

Works (selection)

as an author
  • Dynamic buckling behavior of new types of sheet metal . EFB, Hanover 1998.
  • The use of multiprocessor controls in forming technology using the example of roll rounding . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-18-142902-3 (dissertation).
as editor
  • Flexible manufacture of lightweight frame structures . Trans Tech, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-0-87849-403-3 (together with Jürgen Fleischer, Marco Schickorra and Michael Zäh).
  • Forming technology. Ideas, concepts, developments; Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard von Finckenstein . Teubner, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-519-06345-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/ueber-uns/organisation/der-praesident.html
  2. ↑ Member entry from Comment = with picture and CV at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Directory of members: Matthias Kleiner. Academia Europaea, accessed July 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/hochschulrat
  5. ↑ Doubts about nuclear power also nourished me . Page A7. rp-online.de / Rheinische Post, April 4, 2011, archived from the original on May 26, 2013 ; Retrieved September 26, 2014 (only citation is archived).
personal data
SURNAME Little one, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and university professor, President of the German Research Foundation (from 2007 to 2012)
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen