Dierk Raabe

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Dierk Raabe (born April 18, 1965 in Hilden ) is a German engineer and professor of materials science . In 2004 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize .

Life

After finishing school, Raabe first studied music for two semesters and after 1984 switched to the subjects of metal science and metal physics at RWTH Aachen University . In 1990 he graduated, in 1992 he obtained his doctorate and in 1997 he completed his habilitation in Aachen. Between his dissertation and habilitation , he worked as a research assistant and group leader for computer simulation and composites at the Institute for Metallurgy and Metal Physics in Aachen.

A Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation enabled Raabe to study and research in Pittsburgh and Tallahassee in the United States from 1997 to 1999 .

Dierk Raabe has been director of the Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design department since 1999 and has been chairman of the management board of the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf since 2010 . At the same time he teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and RWTH Aachen.

Since 2008 he has also been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , of the Leopoldina since 2013, and of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) since 2016 .

Since 2012 he is the Chairman of the University Council of the RWTH Aachen.

research

Raabe focuses on the development of computer simulations of materials. His work has led to the improvement of mesoscopic simulation methods. Thanks to his research results, more precise predictions can now be made of the deformation processes of anisotropic materials.

A second focus of his work are nanostructured composites. Here Raabe carried out basic research that led to the production of better materials in space travel, robotics and the construction of high-field magnets.

Works

  • Computational Materials Science: The Simulation of Materials Microstructures and Properties ( ISBN 3527295410 , Wiley-VCH, 1998)
  • Murders, power, money. Metals between myth and high-tech ( ISBN 3-527-30419-3 , VCH Verlag, Weinheim, 2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Dierk Raabe (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 6, 2016.


personal data
SURNAME Raabe, Dierk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and materials scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hilden , North Rhine-Westphalia