Prof. Hans-Jörg Fecht

• Chaired Professor and Director “Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials” at Ulm University
• EUREKA Cluster Office Director Metallurgy Europe
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

1975 - 1981	Studies of Materials Science Graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
1984	Dr.rer.nat. / Ph.D. in Materials Science Thesis Advisor: Prof. H. Gleiter Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
1984 - 1987	Post-Doctoral Research Associate Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
1987	Habilitation (equivalent)
1987 - 1990	Senior Research Associate Department of Materials Science California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
1990 - 1993	Professor of Metal Physics (C-3) University of Augsburg, Germany
1993 - 1997	Chaired Professor of Materials Science Technical University Berlin, Germany
1997 -	Chaired Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (C-4) Director Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials University of Ulm, Germany
2001 - 2012	Senior Scientist Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Germany
2015 -	Director EUREKA Cluster office "Metallurgy Europe"

• 2015: EUREKA Cluster Metallurgy Europe Office Director
• 2014: Member editorial board of the journal "npi Microgravity" of Nature Publishing Group
• 2014: Associate editor International Journal of Theoretical and applied Nanotechnology (IJTAN)
• 2014: Regional editor American Journal of Nanotechnology
• 2014: Editorial Board Annals of Materials Science and Engineering
• 2013: European editor, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology JNN
• 2013: Elected member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria
• 2012: Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• 2011: Honorary Professor, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
• 2010: Member of "Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC)", European Science Foundation (ESF)
• 2009: Panel chair of JOM R. Mehl award, TMS, USA
• 2009: Panel Chair Materials Science of ESSC at European Science Foundation ESF
• 2008: Adjunct Professor World Premier Institute, Tohoku Univ. Sendai, Japan
• 2007: Co-Chairman Science Council EML / ESA
• 2007: Overseas Professor, Anna University Chennai, India
• 2006: Member of Board ESF European Space Council
• 2005: Head of Nanomaterials activity of DGM
• 2004: Innovationspreis des VDI
• 2003: Pioneer of Nanotechnology (Deutsche Bank AG)
• 1998: G.W. Leibniz-Award (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
• 1993-1997: Speaker of the Materials Science Laboratory of Deutsche
  Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG on "High Temperature Materials for Turbine Engines"
• 1984: Fellow of Max-Kade-Gesellschaft (New York)

Chairman of several workshops and conferences, Member of International Advisory Committees of conferences, seminar series and journals on surface
engineering, nanomaterials and advanced materials