Jörg Müssig

Jörg Müssig (* 1968 ) is a German scientist in the field of materials science and bionics . He is Professor for Biological Materials at the University of Bremen , specializing in BIONICS. Until 2009 he was an active member of the Junge Akademie .

Life

Müssig completed his studies in mechanical engineering at the University of Duisburg and, after graduating, switched to the Fiber Institute Bremen eV (FIBER) in Bremen. From 1996 to 1998 he was a research assistant in the New Materials working group at the European Academy in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. From 1998 to 2001 he worked in the production engineering department of the University of Bremen and did his doctorate with a thesis on natural fiber-reinforced thermosets .

He then went back to the Fiber Institute in Bremen and built up the Renewable Raw Materials working group and was head of the research area Natural Materials / Sustainability from 2003 to 2007 . In 2007 he was appointed professor of the chair for biological materials in the international bionics course at the University of Bremen. His teaching areas include materials science, biological materials, material characterization and the chemical fundamentals of materials. Research areas are the development of sustainable , nature-inspired and bionic material concepts including the entire chain from extraction to the end product, the specific properties of various natural fibers and their possible uses in new materials, the relationship between structures and properties and the transfer of biological models to materials and insulation materials , with a focus on natural fibers and natural and cellulose fiber composites. The focus of bionic research in his working group is primarily on researching the structure-property relationships in plant structures such as rhubarb or the fruits of the babassu and coconut palms.

Awards

In 2004 Müssig and Katja Windt were appointed to the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , where he was an active member until 2009.

In 2010 he was elected to the European Scientific Committee - Technical Uses of the European Confederation of Flax and Hemp (CELC), Paris, France. Jörg Müssig and Katharina Albrecht from the Bremen University of Applied Sciences won the “Honda Initiation Grant Europe 2015”, endowed with 30,000 euros. The Japanese automobile manufacturer Honda has been using the award annually since 1997 to promote innovative research ideas.

Publications (selection)

Müssig published numerous specialist articles, a complete list of publications is available on the Bremen University of Applied Sciences website.

• J. Müssig (Ed.): Industrial Applications of Natural Fibers. Structure, Properties and Technical Applications. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester 2010; ISBN 978-0-470-69508-1
• B. Bax, J. Müssig: Impact and tensile properties of PLA / Cordenka and PLA / flax composites. In: Composites Science and Technology, 68 (2008), pp. 1601-1607.
• J. Müssig, M. Karus, RR Franck: Bast and Leaf Fiber Composite Materials. In: RR Franck (ed.): Bast and other plant fibers. Cambridge (UK): Woodhead Publishing, 2005, pp. 345-376.
• J. Müssig: Investigation of the suitability of domestic plant fibers for the production of natural fiber-reinforced thermosetting plastics - from cultivation to composite material. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001.
• H. Harig, J. Müssig: Domestic plant fibers for the automobile. In: H. Harig, CJ Langenbach (ed.): New materials for innovative products. Berlin: Springer, 1999, pp. 235-251.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Müssig in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Beneke: High-tech from nature: Materials of the future, Part 3: How Bremen researchers optimize skis, car doors or urns with bio-materials. In: Weser Kurier, Wednesday, January 6, 2016.
2. ↑ U. Heidel: Inspired by the principle of nature. In: Junge Wissenschaft, issue no. 85, Volume 25, 2010, pp. 10–11.
3. ↑ J. Wendler: What rhubarb has to do with cars. In: Weser Kurier, Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
4. ↑ G. Staufenberg, N. Graupner, J. Müssig: Impact and hardness optimization of composite materials inspired by the babassu nut (Orbignya speciosa). In: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 10, 2015; 056006 doi : 10.1088 / 1748-3190 / 10/5/056006 .
5. ↑ Katja Windt and Jörg Müssig in Die Junge Akademie , press release from the University of Bremen on July 2, 2004.
6. ↑ European Confederation of Flax and Hemp (CELC): The 10 experts of the european scientific committee of CELC. ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2012.  
7. ↑ Research team from Bremen University of Applied Sciences wins "Honda Initiation Grant Europe 2015 i2b.de, July 22, 2015.