Eduard Arzt

Biography: Born in 1956 in Linz, Austria, Eduard Arzt studied physics and mathematics at the Universität Wien, Austria. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1980 with a project carried out at the Universität Leoben. Following a two-year period as a research associate at Cambridge University, UK, he joined the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung as a group leader in 1982. After a one-year stay as visiting professor at Stanford University, USA, he was appointed in 1990 Professor of Physical Metallurgy/Metal Physics at the Universität Stuttgart and jointly Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung. He has received several awards, including the Masing-Gedächtnispreis, the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, the Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, the Acta Metallurgica Outstanding Paper Award, and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis. He has been visiting professor and RS Williams Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. He is a corresponding member of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften and is presently a member of the Council of the Materials Research Society, USA, and of an External Advisory Group to the EU Research Directorate in Brussels. His research interests range from advanced structural to thin-film materials and, more recently, to the mechanics of biological structures.