Hans Jürgen Seifert

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hans Jürgen Seifert
Seifert
Professional Experiences
Since January 2011 Full Professor, Materials Science and Engineering,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),
Head of Institute for Applied Materials – Applied Materials Physics
(IAM-AWP)
July 2006 – June 2011 Adjunct Faculty University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gainesville, USA
July 2006 – January 2011 Full Professor, Applied Materials Science,
Technical University of Freiberg
Nov 2003 – July 2006 Associate Professor, University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gainesville, USA
Nov. 2001 – Oct. 2003 Senior Coating Expert – ALSTOM Power (Switzerland) Ltd
1993 – 2001 Group Leader:
Materials Thermodynamics and Chemistry of Ceramics and Alloys,
Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research,
Powder Metallurgy Laboratory,
Department of Material Synthesis and Microstructure Design,
Stuttgart, Germany
1993 – 1997 Research Associate - Institute for Non-metallic Inorganic Materials,
University of Stuttgart, Germany
2003 Habilitation, University of Stuttgart
1993 Doctor of Natural Sciences, Dr. rer. nat.
University of Stuttgart and Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung
1988 Diploma - Mineralogy,
University of Heidelberg, Germany

 

Honors
2021 – 2024 Member of the Senate Committee on
Collaborative Research Centres of German Research Association,
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG
2021 – 2024 Member of the Grants Committee on
Collaborative Research Centres of German Research Association, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG
2016 – 2020 Speaker of Review Board “Materials Science“,
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG
2012 – 2020 Member of Review Board “Materials Science”,
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG   
Since 2017 Guest Professor at Chongqing University, China
2017 Visiting Professor at Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China
2015 – 2020 Guest Professor at Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
2015 – 2024 Member Advisory Committee Batterieforum Deutschland (Battery Panel Germany) for Federal Ministry of Education and Research
1990 Doctoral Fellowship from Max Planck Society, Germany
1992 Ph.D. Award from Hoechst AG, Frankfurt/M, Germany
1999 Masing Memorial Prize from German Materials Society
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e. V.)

 

Memberships
DGM, German Materials Society
TMS
American Ceramic Society
ASM International, Member-at-Large
The Electrochemical Society
Miscellaneous

Dr. H.J. Seifert is a Full Professor at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and head of the Institute for Applied Materials (IAM-AWP). In this context, he is mainly active in the research fields Materials for Energy (e.g. batteries and oxides), Metallic Alloys and Advanced Ceramics of the Helmholtz-Association of German Research Centers. He is author / co-author of more than 250 publications in these research areas. He is also co-editor and managing editor, respectively, of several journals in Materials Science and Engineering and serves the national and international communities with e.g. organization of conference symposia, as reviewer for journals and as a chair and member of several professional committees in Materials Science and Engineering. He is a member of the advisory board of “Batterieforschung Deutschland” serving the “German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)”.

Main fields of research

The main fields of interest of Prof. Hans Jürgen Seifert are concerned with engineering materials for advanced energy technologies including battery materials (both Lithium and Beyond Lithium types), light alloys, environmental barrier coatings and materials for gas turbines and power plant technologies. He combines methods of computational and experimental thermodynamics and kinetics with high temperature materials physics. Additionally, materials chemistry and analysis are in the focus of his activities. He is head of the Institute for Applied Materials – Applied Materials Physics (IAM-AWP, about 100 employees at this institute) at KIT with departments and research groups on e.g.:

  • Advanced Batteries
  • Metallic Materials
  • Thermophysics and Thermodynamics
  • Composites and Thin films
  • Laser Processing Technology
  • Corrosion (incl. Nuclear Safety)
  • High Temperature Materials Chemistry
  • Chemical Analysis