Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Fratzl
Curriculum vitae
| 2009-present |
Honorary Professor (Physics of Biomaterials) at the University of Potsdam |
| 2004-present |
Honorary Professor of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2003-present |
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam-Golm, Germany |
| 1998-2003 |
Chair of Metal Physics at the University of Leoben (Austria) and Director of the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1993 |
Scientific advisor to the director of the "Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute of Osteology", Vienna (Austria) |
| 1993-1994 |
Visiting Research Fellow at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK) |
| 1986-1998 |
Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute for Materials Physics of the University of Vienna (Austria) |
| 1981-1985 |
Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and at "Laboratoire Leon Brillouin" in Saclay (France); Visiting Research Fellow at Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin and at New York University |
| 1983 |
Dr. rer. nat. Physics, University of Vienna (Austria) |
| 1980 |
Ingénieur Diplômé de l’Ecole Polytechnique Paris (France) |
Research fields
Biomimetic materials research. Structure function relation in biological materials, Bone and mineral research with biomedical applications: Bone material quality in osteoporosis treatment, materials aspects in bone regeneration, Mechanical properties and modeling of composite materials. Solid-state phase transformations