Peter Gumbsch

Peter Gumbsch (born January 21, 1962 in Pforzheim ) is a German materials scientist and physicist. He has headed the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg im Breisgau since 2001 and is Professor of Mechanics of Materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Life

Peter Gumbsch studied physics at the University of Stuttgart and economics at the Fernuniversität Hagen . At the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, he completed his doctoral thesis and was awarded his doctorate in 1991 from the University of Stuttgart. After research stays at Imperial College London and Oxford University , he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and established the working group "Modeling and Simulation of Thin Film Phenomena" there. In 2001 he took over the chair for mechanics of materials at the University of Karlsruhe, now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), as well as the management of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM.

In 2015, Gumbsch was appointed to the German Science Council and elected chairman of the Scientific Commission in 2017. He has been an elected member of the Fraunhofer Senate since 2016 and, as a board member of the Fraunhofer Group MATERIALS, a member of the Presidium of the Fraunhofer Society since 2019.

research

The German materials scientist Peter Gumbsch conducts research in the field of material mechanics on questions of material behavior under load. His focus is on understanding materials, components and systems at the limits of their resilience. Its aim is to make materials and components safer, more reliable and more durable and to improve the material and energy efficiency of technical systems. Peter Gumbsch examines the structure and properties of materials from their atomic structure to their macroscopic behavior. His research is aimed at understanding the behavior of materials and modeling them mathematically. In addition to deformation and fracture processes, he is particularly interested in friction and wear. His concepts of multiscale material modeling combine nano- and microstructural processes inside the material with its macroscopic behavior. Peter Gumbsch and his team are doing pioneering work in linking material data, material modeling and product development. He is significantly involved in the development of cross-scale, multiscale material modeling.

Awards and memberships

2019 member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech
2016 Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
2013 DGM Prize of the German Society for Material Science
2009 Hector Science Award
2008 member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences
2007 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation
1998 FEMS Lecturer, Federation of European Materials Societies
1998 Masing Memorial Prize, the German Society for Material Science DGM
1997 Peter Haasen Prize from the Institute for Metal Physics, University of Göttingen together with the Peter Haasen Foundation
1992 Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Society

Web links

Prof. Dr. Peter Gumbsch, director of the institute. IWM; accessed on April 20, 2019
Fraunhofer Society: Leibniz Prize for Peter Gumbsch. In: World of Physics. 2006 .; accessed on April 20, 2019
Publications at the IWM. Retrieved April 20, 2019
Institute for Applied Materials IAM-CMS. Retrieved April 20, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Gumbsch elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Hector Fellow Academy, accessed April 20, 2019 .
↑ Awarding of the Hector Science Prize. Hector Fellow Academy, accessed April 20, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gumbsch, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German materials scientist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pforzheim

[1] Peter Gumbsch elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Hector Fellow Academy, accessed April 20, 2019 .

[2] Awarding of the Hector Science Prize. Hector Fellow Academy, accessed April 20, 2019 .