Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dierk Raabe
Sustainable Synthesis of Materials
Main Focus
Dierk Raabe works in the
fields of materials simulation, atom probe tomography, microstructures and the resulting mechanical properties of metallic alloys. He wrote and edited several
books on this topic, e.g. ‘Computational Materials Science’ (1998), Continuum
Scale Simulation of Engineering Materials’ (2005), and ‘Crystal Plasticity FEM
in Materials Science and Engineering’ (2010) as well as more than 600 peer
reviewed publications. Raabe conducts detailed comparisons between simulation
and experiments. He is currently working on issues such as local thermodynamic
phase states at confined spaces such as at lattice defects, alloy design, high-entropy
alloys, atom probe tomography and the further development of the in-house
simulation toolbox DAMASK on crystal mechanics, multiphysics and property
prediction of complex materials. A special feature of the research approach is
the combination of thermomechanical material processing, simulation and
characterization at the atomic level. The common vision of these activities is
the use of predictive simulations and their consequent engineering application
for inventing advanced alloys. The aim is the physically-based design of
materials with superior properties (strength, elongation, damage tolerance) for
the fields of energy, mobility and health from the atomic to the macro-scale
under consideration of synthesis and processing. The blend of theory, characterization,
and processing is important in his approach. Raabe is a frequent plenary and
keynote speaker. In 2004 he received the highest German research award
(Leibniz-Award). 2008 he was awarded Lee Hsun Lecture Award of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences and in 2011 the Weinberg Lecture Award of the University of
British Columbia. In 2012 he received an ERC advanced grant, which is the
largest single-researcher grant in Europe. Raabe mentored more than 55 Ph.D.s,
many of whom now hold leading positions in companies and academia as faculty
members in the US, UK, and Asia. Since 2010 he is a member of the German
Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat). He is Professor at RWTH
Aachen, member of the National Academy Leopoldina and Honorary Professor at the
Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven in Belgien.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
· Conservatory Rheinland, Music, 1983-84
· RWTH Aachen, Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Diplom, sum cum laude, 1990
· RWTH Aachen, Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Dr.-Ing., sum cum laude, 1992
· RWTH Aachen, Physical Metallurgy and Metal Physics, Habilitation, 1997
Awards, Honors, Memberships
· ERC Advanced Grant, 2022
· Acta Materialia Gold Medal award, 2022
· Borchers Award, University Aachen RWTH
· Adolf-Martens Award, BAM Berlin
·
Friedrich-Wilhelm Award, University
Aachen RWTH
· Several Best-Paper Awards ( e.g. Steel Research 1995; Werner Koester Award; ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal)
· Masing Award, German Society for Materials Science DGM
· Heisenberg Scholarship, German Research Foundation DFG
· Materials Science and Technology Price, Federation of European Materials Societies FEMS
· Dr. Meyer-Struckmann Award, University Cottbus
· Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation DFG
· Elected as Nr. 1 among the TOP-10 of German Scientists below the age of 45
· Lee Hsun Lecture Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008
·
Weinberg Lecture Award, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, 2011
·
DGM Award (Award of the German Society for Materials
Science), 2011
·
ERC Advanced Grant, 2012
·
Member Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences
· Member National Academy Leopoldina, 2014
· Honorary Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2014
Employment
· Professor (APL), RWTH Aachen
· since 2010 Cief Executive Max–Planck–Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
· since 1999 Director at Max–Planck–Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH and member of the Max–Planck–Society
· 1997 –1999 Scientist at the Department for Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA - and - Scientist at the US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida USA
· 1992-97 Scientist and group leader, RWTH Aachen
Service Activities (selected)
·
Member of Selection Board of scholarship programme of
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007-2016)
·
Member of Governors Board of Acta Materialia Inc. (2007-2014)
·
Member of Council of Science and Humanities of the
German Government (Wissenschaftsrat) (2010-2016)
· Chairman of Board of Governors (Hochschulrat) of RWTH Aachen University (2012-2017)
· Senator of the Helmholtz-Society