Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Dierk Raabe
Curriculum Vitae
Born on April 18, 1965 in Hilden. Study of music, metallurgy and metal physics; doctorate in metallurgy and metal physics (Dipl.-Ing.) at RWTH Aachen (1992). Staff Scientist and Group Leader at the Institute for Metal Physics, RWTH Aachen (1992-1997), German Habilitation at RWTH Aachen (1997), Visiting Scientist Dpt. for Materials Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon Univ. Pittsburgh, USA, and US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida. Director and Scientific Member at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (since 1999), Professor at RWTH Aachen.
Amongst others Prof. Raabe holds the following offices and prizes: Masing Award of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM) (1996); Heisenberg Scholarship, German Research Foundation (DFG) (1997); Materials Science and Technology Price, Federation of European Materials Societies FEMS (2001); Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (2004); Lee Hsun Lecture Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008); DGM Award (Award of the German Society for Materials Science) (2011); Weinberg Lecture Award, University of British Columbia (2011); ERC Advanced Grant (2012); member of the National Academy Chairman of the Board of Governors (Hochschulrat) of RWTH Aachen University (since 2012); member of the National Academy Leopoldina (2014) and Honorary Professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.