Group Leader, Permanent Academic Staff (Akademischer Oberrat)
Room: ICFO 04-323
Phone: +49 (0)234 32 - 22547
Email: jan.a.frenzel@rub.de
Jan Frenzel is leading the Materials Processing research group. In research and teaching, he investigates the relationships between processing conditions, microstructures, and the properties of modern functional and structural materials. Key scientific focus areas include melting and solidification of alloys, thermomechanical post-treatment, and the accompanying microstructural characterization. Advanced scale-bridging methods are employed for microstructural analysis. In special cases, novel characterization techniques are used, such as special tomographic approaches and a high-resolution EBSD technique developed in-house in the course of earlier research projects. Jan Frenzel conducts research in the fields of shape memory alloys and Ni-base superalloys. He is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the European Symposium on Martensitic Transformations (ESOMAT) and the International Conference on Martensitic Transformations (ICOMAT), as well as the editorial boards of the journals Shape Memory and Superelasticity and Materials. In his teaching, he offers lectures on the experimental methods of materials science, shape memory alloys, materials recycling, and scanning electron microscopy.
Since 09.2022
Head of the independent research group Materials Processing in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
11.2019
Appointment as Adjunct Professor (Außerplanmäßiger Professor), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
12.2018
Habilitation: "Materials Processing and Discovery in Materials Science – Case Studies on the Investigation of Elementary Microstructural Processes"
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
01.2012 - 12.2016
Elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Organization for Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies (SMST), an ASM Affiliate Organization, Materials Park, Ohio, USA
1.2008 - 12.2019
Head of the Advanced Study Group "Input Data and Validation" at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS), RUB
10.2007 / 04.2012
Appointment as permanent academic staff (Akademischer Rat/Akademischer Oberrat), Institute for Materials, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
11.2005 - 10.2007
Postdoc, Ruhr University Bochum, Oak Ridge National Lab (TN, USA) and Northwestern University (IL, USA)
04.2003 - 11.2005
Doctoral thesis "Metallurgical Investigations into the Melt-Metallurgical Production of Ni-rich NiTi Shape Memory Alloys"
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
10.1996 - 03.2003
Studies in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
Diploma thesis: "Investigation of Coated NiTi Shape Memory Alloys with Regard to Strain and Corrosion Behaviour"
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