Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Hans Jürgen 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