Reiner Kirchheim

Short Bio:

Reiner Kirchheim is a Distinguished Professor of Lower Saxonia at the University of Goettingen and an external member of the Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research in Duesseldorf. He worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research as a research scientist and senior group leader from 1971 until 1993 and received his PhD in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1973. From 1993 to 2008 he was the director of the Institute for Materials Physics at the University of Goettingen. Prof. Kirchheim is known for his research in thermodynamics and kinetics of materials. He is a member of the Goettingen Academy of Science, the German National Academy of Technical Sciences (acatech) and the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the recipient of the Carl Wagner Prize 1990, the Honda Memorial Award 2003, the Heyn Memorial Medal 2005, the Lee Hsun Lecture Award 2007, the Staudinger-Durrer Lecture at ETH-Zurich and the Talbot Distinguished Lecture at UI Urbana/Champaign.