TO-seminarium: Some basic science aspects behind green steel

Välkommen till TO-seminarium med Dierk Raabe från Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials.

About Dierk Raabe:
Dierk Raabe studied music (4 Semesters) at Konservatorium Wuppertal (Germany), and metallurgy and metal physics (summa cum laude) at RWTH Aachen (Germany). After his doctorate 1992 (summa cum laude) and habilitation 1997 at RWTH Aachen he received a Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Foundation and worked at Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee (USA).

He joined Max Planck Society as a director in Düsseldorf at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (now: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials) in 1999.

His main research interest today is to make industrial production of materials more sustainable, focusing on basic research where the leverage for CO2 emission mitigation and lower energy consumption is particularly large in hard to abate industry sectors.

His specific interests are in sustainable metals (specifically ‘green’ steel and other transition metals such as Nickel and Aluminium), recycling-oriented material design, metal physics, interfaces, phase transformation, hydrogen, sustainable manufacturing, and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Materials Science and Engineering.

He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award and two ERC Advanced Grants. He is professor at RWTH Aachen (Germany) and at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is a Doctor honoris Causa at the Norwegian Technical University Trondheim. He is a member and Senator of the German National Science Academy Leopoldina and of the US National Academy of Engineering.

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