Professor Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Quandt

Director of the Institute for Materials Science

and Professor (W3) for Inorganic Functional Materials, Faculty of Engineering,

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Scientific Focus

Materials research on smart materials und multiferroics, development of sensors and actuators for MEMS and NEMS

Academic Career

since 2006

Professor (W3) for Inorganic Functional Materials at the Faculty of Engineering of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

2002 (summer)

Visiting Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA

2000

Professorial Thesis at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Universität Karlsruhe

1999 - 2006

Research Group Leader at the Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (caesar), Bonn

1996 - 1999

Research Group Leader at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Materials Research I

1991 - 1996

Scientist at the (Kern)Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Materials Research I

1990

Dissertation at the Optical Institute of the Technische Universität Berlin („summa cum laude“)

1986 - 1991

Scientific Assistant at the Optical Institute of the Technische Universität Berlin

1980 - 1986

Studies of physics at the Technische Universität Berlin

1979 - 1980

Studies of mathematics and physics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Awards

2009

1st prize of the "Ideenwettbewerb Gesundheitswirtschaft Schleswig-Holstein" (with Rodrigo Lima de Miranda)

1996

Georg-Sachs-Preis

1995

of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)

1991

Förderpreis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie (DGE) (with Stephan laBarré)

1983 – 1986

Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Scientific Positions

since 2010

Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 855) „Magnetoelectric Composites – Biomagnetic Interfaces of the Future“

since 2009

Member of the Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF)

since 2009

Spokesperson of the Research Focus „Nano and Surface Science“ of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

since 2008

Spokesperson of the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)

since 2008

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Acandis GmbH und Co. KG, Pfinztal

2007 - 2010 Chair of the Technical Committee “Thin Films” of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)

1997 - 2010 Chair of the Working Group “Thin Films for MEMS” of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)