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

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

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 2012
Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)

since 2012
Member of the Review Board of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

since 2012
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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)

2009 - 2012
Spokesperson of the Research Focus „Kiel Nano Science“ of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

since 2008
Member of the Executive Board Spokesperson of the Advisory Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)

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

1997 - 2007
Chair of the Working Group “Thin Films for MEMS” of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)