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Frank Mücklich (born August 17, 1959) is a German materials scientist. He is professor at Saarland University and leads the Chair of Functional Materials.[1]

Biography

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Frank Mücklich was born in Dresden, Germany. He grew up in Freiberg where he attended the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium. From 1980 to 1985, Mücklich studied Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology. In 1988, he received his PhD with a dissertation on 'X-ray diffraction analysis of point defects in highly perfect Gallium arsenide single crystals' at the Heinrich Oettel Institute. As postdoctoral researcher he stayed at the University of Technology in Freiberg where he headed the metallography working group at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy.[2]

In 1990, Mücklich went on a Max Planck scholarship to the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart led by Günter Petzow and became group leader for functional materials. Five years later, he was appointed professor at Saarland University and built up the Chair of Functional Materials. In 2008, he founded the European School of Materials and, in 2009, the Material Engineering Center Saarland as a research center of the Steinbeis Foundation.[3]

Scientific contributions

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Mücklich works in the areas of surface structuring and material characterization. His focus is on surfaces and thin films exploring new possibilities of material functionalisation mainly by pulsed laser beams, as well as thin film phenomena and electrical erosion. His research concerns the three-dimensional microstructure of materials at micro-, nano- and atomic-scale. He works scale-dependent with various experimental and theoretical methods. Together with the mathematician Joachim Ohser he described the theoretical background of his research in the book Statistical Analysis of Microstructures in Materials Science.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Funktionswerkstoffe, Lehrstuhl für. "Director of Institute". Lehrstuhl für Funktionswerkstoffe. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. ^ "Article about Frank Mücklich in the 'Saarbrücker Zeitung' (in German), 20.10.2009". Archived from the original on 2016-03-10. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  3. ^ "Leitung | Lehrstuhl Prof. Frank Mücklich". Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  4. ^ Ohser, Joachim; Mücklich, Frank (2000). Statistical analysis of microstructures in materials science. Statistics in practice. Chichester Weinheim: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-97486-4.
  5. ^ "SORBY AWARD RECIPIENTS". Asminternational.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  6. ^ "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V.: Executive Committee". Dgm.de. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  7. ^ Petzow, Günter. "Heyn-Denkmünze 2023". dgm.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  8. ^ "Preisgekrönte Materialforschung zur Sicherheit und dem Verschleiß elektrischer Kontakte in Autos". Saarland University (in German). 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
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