Memberships and Chairmanships
Membership in Scientific Committees and Coordination of projects
1991-1993 Chairman of the Expert Working Group ”Containerless Processing“, European Space Agency;
1993 Director Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Undercooled Metallic Melts: Properties, Solidification and Metastable Phases", Il Ciocco, Italy, supported by the Scientific Division of NATO;
1993–1994 Spokesman of the programme committee for application of a priority programme on “Undercooled ;Melts: Phase Selection and Glass Transition” at DFG (Prof. Dr. G. Frohberg, PD Dr. D.M. Herlach, Prof. Dr. U. Köster, Prof. Dr. B. Predel, Prof. Dr. K. Samwer);
1994-2001 Coordinator of the priority programme DFG SPP 729 ”Undercooled Melts: Phase Selection and Glass Transition”;
1994 Principal Investigator of the International Microgravity Laboratory, IML2, NASA Spacelab-Mission;
1993–1997 Member of the "Physics Working Group", European Space Agency;
1997 Principal Investigator of the Materials Science Laboratory, MSL1 und MSL1R, NASA Spacelab-Missions;
1997-1999 Chairman of the Topical Working Group ”Metastable States”, European Space Agency;
1997-2013 Member of the Metal Physics Working Group of the German Physical Society, (DPG), the German Society of Materials Science (DGM) and the German Society of Metallurgy (VDEh);
2000–2003 Chairperson of the Metal Physics Group;
2004–2007 Chairperson of the Metal- and Material Physics Division, German Physical Society;
Since 2000 Member of the European Solidification Group.;
1993–2008 Elected Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee "International Conferences on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials", re-election on 28. August 2002.
1998 Guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Processing on ”Metastable States and Phases”;
1999–2000 Spokesman of the programme committee for application of a priority programme on “Phase Transformations in Multicomponent Metallic Alloys” at DFG (Prof. Dr. D.M. Herlach, Prof. Dr. H. Müller-Krumbhaar, Prof. Dr. B. Petry, Prof. Dr. K. Samwer);
2001-2008 Coordinator of the priority programme DFG SPP 1120 ”Phase Transformations in Multicomponent Metallic Alloys“;
Since 1999 Co-editor of the scientific journal ”Advanced Engineering Materials”;
2004-2012 Elected member of the Review Board ”Materials Science and Engineering” of the German Research Foundation (DFG), re-election November 2007;
2006-2007 Member of the programme committee for application of a priority programme on “Heterogeneous Nucleation and Microstructure Formation: Steps towards a system and scale bridging understanding” at DFG (Prof. Dr. H. Emmerich, Sprecherin, Prof. Dr. K. Binder, Prof. Dr. D.M. Herlach, Prof. Dr. P. Leiderer, Prof. Dr. K. Löwen, Prof. Dr. B. Nestler, Prof. Dr. Th. Palberg, Prof. Dr. K. Schmid-Fetzer), Approval by DFG in March 2007 as DFG SPP1296;
2008-2010 Deputy chairman of the board of directors of the German Society of Materials Science and Engineering (BV MatWerrk);
2010-2013 Representation of the German Materials Society in the working group ”Metal- and Materials Physics”;
2010-2014 Representative of the German Aerospace Center DLR at the German Society of Materials Science and Engineering (BV MatWerk);
2010 Member of the review board of the priority programme SPP 1239 "Modification of Microstructure and Shape of Solid Materials by External Magnetic Fields" of the German Research Foundation (DFG);
2010 Member of the review board of the priority programme SPP 1473 “Materials with New Design for Improved Lithium Ion Batteries – WeNDeLIB” of the German Research Foundation (DFG);
2010-2014 Chairman of the International Topical Team ”Solidification of Containerlesss Undercooled Melts“ der European Space Agency
2012 Member of the review board of the priority programme SPP 1594 "Topological Engineering of Ultra-Strong Glasses" of the German Research Foundation (DFG);
2012-2014 Elected member of the Council of the German Physical Society;
Organisation of Workshops, Symposia, Conferences
06.-12. 06. 1993 NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Undercooled Melts: Properties, Solidification and Metastable Phases", Il Ciocco, Italy;
06.-07. 04. 1995 DFG-Colloquium "Undercooled Metallic Melts", Physik-Zentrum Bad Honnef,.
25.-27. 03. 1996 Symposium "Undercooled Metallic Melts: Phase Selection and Glass Transition", Spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Solid State Physics Division, Regensburg;
12.-14. 03. 1997 DFG-Colloquium "Undercooled Metallic Melts", Physik-Zentrum in Bad Honnef.;
24.-26. 02. 1999 DFG-Colloquium "Undercooled Metallic Melts", Physik-Zentrum in Bad Honnef.;
27.-28. 09. 1999 Symposium ”UNDERCOOLING”, EUROMAT 99, Munich;
30.-31. 10. 2000 DFG-Colloquium ”Phase Transformations in Multicomponent Metallic Melts”, Gustav Stresemann Institut Bonn;
24.-26. 03. 2001 Symposium: "Undercooled Metallic Melts: Phase Selection and Glass Transition", Spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Solid State Physics Division, Hamburg;
04.-08. 11. 2001 Workshop ”Modern Metallic Materials Design”, Sino-German Science Center, Beijing, November 2001 (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Knut Urban and Prof. Dr. Ze Zhang);
06.-07. 06. 2002 Discussion Meeting of the Royal Society London, ”Nucleation Control”, London, June 2002 (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. G. W. Greenwood, Prof. Dr. A.L. Greer and Prof. Dr. K. Kelton);
25.-26. 03. 2003 Symposium: ”Modern Metallic Materials Design”, Spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Solid State Physics Division, Dresden;
01.-05. 09. 2003 Symposium: “Solidification and Crystallization“, EUROMAT 2003, Lausanne, Switzerland.
25.-26. 03. 2004 DFG-Colloquium ”Phase Transformations of Multicomponent Metallic Mets”, Physik-Zentrum Bad Honnef.
21.-23. 09. 2004 Topic ”Transformations” at Materials Week 2004, Munich;
04.-08. 09. 2005 Symposium: “Solidification and Solid State Transformations“, EUROMAT 2005, Prague, Czech Republic;
01.-02. 03. 2007 DFG-Colloquium ”Phase Transformations of Multicomponent Melts”, Physik-Zentrum Bad Honnef;
24.-26. 02. 2008 Symposium: ”Phase Transformations in Metallic Melts”, Spring meeting of the German Physical Society, Solid State Physics Division, Berlin
09. 07. 2010 Workshop ”Solidification of Containerless Undercooled Melts”, DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space;
25.-27. 05. 2016 Workshop ”Solidification of Containerless Undercooled Melts”, Burg Schnellenberg, Attendorn (Germany), in cooperation with Stefan Klein