Jürgen Eckert
Jürgen Eckert (born August 5, 1962 in Bayreuth ) is a German engineer and materials scientist .
Life
Eckert went to high school in Pegnitz , which he finished in 1981 with the Abitur. He then studied materials science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and graduated in 1985 with a thesis on the creep behavior of steel grades. He received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on the subject of investigations into the formation of amorphous and quasi-crystalline alloy phases through interdiffusion , while doing his dissertation as a freelancer at the research laboratory of Siemens AG in Erlangen. He completed his habilitation in 2001 at the TU Dresden with a thesis on metastable phases in multi-component systems .
From 1990 to 1992 Eckert was a visiting scientist at Caltech , 1992/93 research assistant at SGL Carbon / Ringsdorff Werke GmbH and from 1993 employee at the Institute for Materials Science (IFW) in Dresden . From 1997 Eckert also taught at the Institute for Materials Science at the TU Dresden. From 2002 to 2005 he was an assistant professor at Michigan Technological University . In 2003 he became professor for physical metallurgy at TU Darmstadt and from 2006 was director of the Institute for Complex Materials at IFW Dresden and professor for material synthesis and analysis at TU Dresden. He has been a professor at the Montan University Leoben and director of the Erich-Schmidt Institute for Materials Science at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Leoben since 2015 .
research
Eckert researches new types of metastable metallic materials. Some of them are amorphous (metallic glasses), quasi-crystalline or nanocrystalline and are produced, for example, by rapid cooling. Some of them have interesting properties such as high strength with high elastic elongation, magnetic isotropy and corrosion resistance and are used in the aerospace and automotive industries, medical technology, mechanical engineering and microsystem technology, among others. Eckert analyzes their creation processes and then develops function-optimized new materials and methods of their production. He changes the combination of the desired properties by varying the alloy and, for example, minimizes the risk of breakage by using heterogeneous materials with a hierarchical microstructure.
In 1997 he received the Georg Sachs Prize, the Research Prize of IFW Dresden in 2002 and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2009 . In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava . Eckert has been a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2017 .
He holds numerous patents.
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eckert, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German materials scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |