University education:  Oct.1970 to Apr.1976 Diploma studies in physics at RWTH Aachen

Diploma thesis: Massenspektrometrische Untersuchungen und Auswertungen an binären und ternären Kombinationen der Metalle Fe-Ni-Cr.

(Mass spectrometric investigations and assessments on binary and ternary combinations of the metals Fe-Ni-Cr)

Work was carried out at Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Hüttenkunde (Theoretical Metallurgy), RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Prof. Oswald Kubaschewski.

Doctorate thesis: Apr.1976 to Dec.1978

Hochtemperatur-kalorimetrische Messungen am System Ni-Co-Cr und Berechnungen des Zustandsdiagramms

(High temperature calorimetric measurements in the system Ni-Co-Cr and calculation of the phase diagram)

Work was carried out at Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Hüttenkunde (Theoretical Metallurgy), RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Prof. Oswald Kubaschewski.

 

Employments

Jan.1979 to Jun.1979 - Scientific Researcher at RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Hüttenkunde (Theoretical Metallurgy)

Jul.1979 to Jun.1981 - Scientific Researcher at Brunell University, Uxbridge, England. The work was executed in the Materials Thermodynamic Data Services (MTDS) group at National Physical Laboratory, Teddington.

Jul.1981 to Aug.1987 - Scientific Researcher at RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Hüttenkunde (Theoretical Metallurgy)

Since Sept. 1987 - Scientific researcher and shareholder in Gesellschaft für Technische Thermochemie und -physik mbH (GTT-Technologies), since 1997 as Managing Director

Since Oct. 2017 - retired, now acting as Senior Consultant to GTT

Further Positions                     

Since WS 1995/1996                  Teaching appointment with RWTH Aachen on Computational Thermochemistry

                                                Further teaching appointments with Montan-Universität Leoben, Bergakademie Technische Universität Freiberg and Osaka University

Since October 2008                   Honorarprofessor of Faculty of Georesources and Materials Science of RWTH Aachen

 

Publications

More than 110 papers on thermodynamic data assessments, software development and applications of computational thermochemistry

Editor and main author of „The SGTE-Case book - Thermodynamics at Work“  (Second edition available since Feb. 2008)

Chapter editor/author in several other books

 

Awards

2020 Hume-Rothery Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, IoM3, London

 

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