Eduard doctor

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Eduard Arzt (born May 1, 1956 in Linz ) is an Austrian physicist . He is the recipient of high-level science awards, such as B. the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , the highest research award of the German Research Foundation, the Acta Metallurgica Award and the Heyn-Denkmünze , the highest award of the German Society for Material Science. In 2013 he was awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), followed by two Proof-of-Concept Grants (2017, 2019). He is a member of the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences, a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2020 an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974, Eduard Arzt began studying physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna at the Khevenhüller Gymnasium in Linz . He received his doctorate in 1980 in Vienna with a thesis on "A model for the compaction of spherical metal powder", which he had made from 1977 to 1980 at the Montan University Leoben . After a two-year research stay at Cambridge University , he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart in 1982 . In 1989/90 he went to Stanford University as a visiting professor for one year and in 1990 took over a professorship for metal science / metal physics at the University of Stuttgart , at the same time he was appointed director at the MPI for Metals Research (today the MPI for Intelligent Systems). In 1996 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for his scientific achievements and taught for one year as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2003 he was appointed Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. On October 1, 2007, he moved to the position of scientific director and chairman of the management board of the Leibniz Institute for New Materials (INM) in Saarbrücken and at the same time became Professor for New Materials at Saarland University . Since then he has carried out a thematic and organizational reorientation of the INM, which has been confirmed by two successful evaluations by the Leibniz Association (2010, 2017). In the 2017 evaluation, the institute was awarded a "leading position worldwide in materials research" by an international expert committee (Leibniz evaluation).

Eduard Arzt is closely networked internationally in his research. Research stays and keynote lectures have taken him, in addition to numerous plenary lectures at international conferences, to the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of California , San Diego, the University of Illinois Urbana Champagne, the Case Western Reserve University, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the University of Vienna and TU Graz. Eduard Arzt is Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Materials Science , the leading traditional review journal in the field of materials science. Around 20 of his former employees work today as holders of renowned chairs in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Korea and the USA, as well as managers in the Max Planck Society, the Leibniz Association, the Fraunhofer Society and the Helmholtz Association .

Eduard Arzt studied piano as a student at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz (now the Anton Bruckner Private University ) and as part of a one-year student exchange (1972/73) at the University of Miami School of Music (now the Frost School of Music). Since 2018 he has been honorary chairman of the board of the Friends of the Saar International Music Festival. Eduard Arzt has held a private pilot license PPL-A since 2018.

Research areas

Doctor worked in the field of powder metallurgy, the development of modern structural materials such as high-temperature and metal matrix composites, the micro- and nanomechanics of materials in particular in thin-film form, electromigration and fatigue in miniaturized material systems and the modeling and simulation of materials under extreme conditions. Currently, the focus of his work is on the research and manufacture of bio-inspired adhesive surfaces and their commercialization for purposes of robotics and automation.

Awards and memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ OeAW members detail. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Eduard Arzt (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Science Prize: Research Between Basics and Application. October 21, 2015, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Carola Jung: Eduard Arzt receives the highest award from the German Society for Material Science. INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials gGmbH, press release from September 19, 2017 at Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de), accessed on September 19, 2017.
  6. ^ Morris Cohen Award. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ High US awards for materials researcher Eduard Arzt from Saarbrücken. In: INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Dr. Eduard doctor. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Doctor, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz