Senior Professor/Group Leader
Room: ICFO 05-309
Phone: +49 (0)234 32 - 28022
Email: gunther.eggeler@rub.de

Research

Gunther Eggeler focuses on elementary microstructural processes that determine the structural and functional behavior of engineering materials. He places particular emphasis on high-temperature materials (e.g. superalloys and Cr steels) and shape memory alloys (NiTiX-based). He is particularly interested in the relationships between microstructure and mechanical properties. He sets methodological priorities in the development of quantitative microscopic methods (LiMi, SEM, and TEM) and in the development of special mechanical test procedures (µ-mechanics, creep, fatigue). As a Senior Professor, he heads a research group at the Chair for Materials Science and Engineering and works closely with the other groups of the chair and external partners.

CV 

Since 08.2025
Senior Professor, Chair for Materials Science and Engineering (LWW), Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)

04.1995 – 07.2025
University Professor, Chair for Materials Science and Engineering (LWW), Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)

05.1990 – 03.1995
Group Leader and Private Lecturer (Privatdozent), Laboratoire de Métallurgie Mécanique (Prof. Dr. B. Ilschner), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, CH

01.1994
Habilitation: "Assessment of High Temperature Fatigue Activities in the European Research Project COST 50" (published by the Institute of Advanced Materials, Commission of the European Communities, Petten)
Department of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, CH

09.1992 – 03.1995
Lecturer, Ecole dʼIngenieurs du Valais (EIV), Sion, CH

01.1988 – 03.1990
Senior Principal Metallurgist, ERA Technology Ltd., Structural Integrity / Plant Life Extension Group, Leatherhead, UK

01.1985 – 12.1987
Postdoc, Laboratoire de Métallurgie Mécanique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, CH

10.1980 – 12.1984
Scientific Employee / Academic Council on Time, Chair of Corrosion and Surface Technology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

11.1984
Dr.-Ing. thesis: "Reaction of low-alloyed steel with aluminum melts" (Supervision: H. Kaesche)
Technical Faculty, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

09.1975 – 09.1980
Studies in Materials Science, Technical Faculty, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Diploma thesis: "Reaction of the dislocation structure to stress reduction in NaCl single crystals" (Supervision: W. Blum)

Awards/Honors

• Tamman Memorial Coin of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), 2005
• Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, 2009
• Bram Prakash Professorship at the Indian Institute of Science, 2008
• Hsun Lee Lecture Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013
• Ernst-Mach Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2013
• Max-Planck Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, 2010
• Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2017
• Heyn Memorial Coin of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), 2020
• Member of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (ACATECH), 2021

Publications