Professor Eduard Arzt
Director – Leibniz-Institute for New Materials, Saarland University, Germany
Prof. Arzt is currently the Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saaland University, Germany. After his early education in physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna in 1974-80, he spent 2 years at the Cambridge University as PostDoc. In 1982 he became the Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart and then appointed Director of Max Planck Institute in 1990 until 2007. After that he went to his current position in Leibniz. Prof. Arzt spent sabbatical leaves at M.I.T., Stanford, University of California, Santa Barbara and San Diego from 1996-2005. Prof. Arzt has received awards: prestigious Max Planck Research Award and also Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award from the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science, German Academy of Science Leopoldina. Prof. Arzt’s research interests are in the fields of Nanomechanics, plasticity in thin films, microstructured adhesion systems and micromechanics of biological and biomimetic systems.
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“For outstanding contribution in the advanced materials technology and for distinguished leadership in science and engineering in Germany”
Professor Yves Brechet
Technical University of Grenoble, INP- France
Prof. Brechet was born in 1961 in France. He did his studies in Paris (Ecole Polytechnique) then his PhD and Habilitation in Grenoble. His research activities are in the field of Modelling in physical and mechanical metallurgy. Prof. Brechet has been interested in phase transformation, plasticity and fracture, materials science of biological systems. In collaboration with M. Ashby he has worked on Materials Selection methods and development of hybrid materials. He has published more than 500 papers, and two books. He is currently Professor in Materials Science in The Technical University of Grenoble INP, Adjunct Professor at McMaster University, Canada and Senior Research Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France.
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“For outstanding research in the field of ferrous and non-ferrous materials and for leadership in materials science and engineering education in France”
Dr. Ohjoon Kwon
Executive Vice President, Technical Research Center, POSCO, Korea
Dr. Ohjoon Kwon is currently the General Superintendant, Executive Vice President: Technical Research Center of POSCO, Korea. He did his MS in Metallurgy from Seoul National University and then went to the University of Windsor, Canada to do his masters degree in Materials Engineering and in 1985 PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. After spending a year at BAMRI as consultant at the University of Pittsburgh he joined POSCO Technical Research Labs as senior researcher. Between 1987-1996 he was at the Pohang Institute of Industrial Science & Technology as Senior Researcher and Laboratory Manager. Dr Kwon was Adjunct Prof. at Youngnam University and later in the same position at POSTECH from 1994-1999. In 2003 he was appointed as the Managing Director of POSCO EU office until 2006. During this time he was also IISI Project Chairman. In 2006 he became the General Superintendant: POSCO Technical Research Center and also Adjunct Prof. at POSTECH. Dr Kwon has received numerous awards notably: Yoon Dong Suk award: KIMM, Scientist of the Year -Prime Minister Award 1998, Engineer of the Year: KIMM 1996, Excellent Service Award, Korean Consulate General: New York and in 1980 Young Member Award: ASM, USA.
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“For outstanding contributions in advancing the understanding of the thermomechanical processing of steels and for significant contributions to solution to industrial problems in steel processing”
Professor Taku Sakai
University of Electrocommunications, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Taku Sakai obtained his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from the Metallurgical Engineering Department of Yokohama National University and that of Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was progressively a Research Associate, an Associate Professor and a Professor in the Division of Material Science and Technology of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, UEC Tokyo (The University of Electro-Communications), where he established a major research laboratory in the fields of mechanical metallurgy and the thermomechanical processing of metallic materials. He and his group are mainly concerned with understanding the scientific and engineering aspects of the cold, warm and hot working of metallic materials, especially in the areas of discontinuous/continuous dynamic recrystallization and the subsequent types of post-dynamic recrystallization taking place during metal processing. Professor Sakai has published over 300 scientific papers. He is one of the most cited researchers in the Materials Science category of Thomson-ISI. He was a visiting professor at McGill University in Canada and is currently an Advisory Professor of the Harbin Institute of Technology, an Honorary Professor of Northeastern University in China and an Emeritus Professor of the UEC Tokyo. He was the editor of several proceedings of international conferences including THERMEC’97 in Australia, Recrystallization’99 in Japan and THERMEC’2003 in Spain.
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"For pioneering research in mechanical metallurgy, especially in the areas of dynamic and post-dynamic recrystallization, and of the development of ultrafine grained structures during metal processing"
Professor Yuqing Weng
Central Iron & Steel Research Institute, Beijing
President: Chinese Society for Metals
Professor Yuqing Weng, born in native of Jiangsu Province, China, is the President of the Chinese Society for Metals. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, majoring in metallography and metallic materials, and achieved PH.D. in materials science and engineering from University of Pennsylvania, USA in 1984. Since 1996 Prof. Weng has been the Chief Scientist of Science and Technology Ministry of China. For the past 10 years, Prof. Yuqing Weng has been working for the development and application of new generation steels which aim to double the intensity and lifespan of the existing steel materials. Prof. Weng has been leading a research team of more than 400 specialists and has developed the theory of “Deformation Induced Ferrite Transformation” and “Resistance to Delayed Fracture”. The developed new generation steel products have been applied in more than 30 steel companies and produced over 15 million tons of new steel materials, which makes China the first country to produce ultra-fine grained steel in industrial scale throughout the world. Prof. Weng is a well acknowledged scientist in China and was elected as the Academician of Russia Academy of Engineering.
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"For leadership in ferrous materials research and in recognition of outstanding achievements as senior executive of Chinese Society for Metals”
Professor Duk Yong Yoon
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology ( KAIST), Korea
Prof. Duk Yong Yoon was born in Korea in 1940 and did his first degree in physics in 1958 from MIT, USA and went to do doctorate from Harvard University. In early1970 he joined the faculty at Wayne State University in Michigan, USA. In 1971 the Korean government established KAIST – a leading graduate school in engineering in Korea and in 1972 Prof Yoon was appointed to establish the Materials Science & Engineering department at KAIST. Although he had physics background from his early work in USA, but he started and established powder metallurgy research group in Korea. In 1978 he spent some time at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. He carried out research in the area of diamond deposition, precipitation in nickel-base superalloys, tungsten heavy alloys and oxide superconductors. Prof. Yoon spent sabbatical leaves at GE Corporate Research Center in USA and also at National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington. Prof. Yoon has also played a major role in the science administration in Korea and has served President of KAIST from 1995-1998. He received Hoam award in1995 and the Outstanding Scientist Award in 2004. More than 40 students did doctoral degrees under his guidance.
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"For significant contributions in advancing the understanding of microstructure and properties of engineering materials and for leadership in materials science and engineering education in Korea“
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