Jürgen Eckert

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Jürgen Eckert is Director of the Erich Schmid Institute (ESI) of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Chair Professor of Materials Physics at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. His main research interests are materials physics, metastable materials as well as design and synthesis of advanced high performance nanostructured and disordered materials for structural and functional applications. He is coauthor of more than 1250 scientific papers and holds 24 patents in the areas of materials science and processing technology. He serves on the editorial board of several journals in the area of materials physics, including International Journal of Materials Research, Powder Metallurgy, Metals, Material Design & Processing Communications, Materials Today Advances, SN Applied Sciences, Nanomaterials, etc. He received several honors and awards such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation, an ERC-Advanced Grant and a Proof-of-Concept Grant of the European Research Council, the ISMANAM Senior Scientist Award, the Hsun Lee Lecture Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the DGM Georg-Sachs-Prize, the THERMEC 2021 Distinguished Award and the IAAM Advanced Materials Award etc. He is a Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Honorary Member of the Indian Institute of Metals, Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Leipzig, Germany, Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and elected IAAM Fellow.