senior scientist (physicist) at ACCESS e.V. – a private non-profit research association at the RWTH Aachen University, research interests: microstructure formation in multicomponent alloys, crystallization on micropatterned surfaces, self-assembly processes, cast parts with functionalized surfaces, lead free solders, superalloys, modeling of solidification phenomena, phase-field models, thermodynamics, integrative computational materials engineering “ICMEâ€, theory of phase transitions, role of entropy in cosmology and in geometry, former topics: manufacture and applications of high temperature superconductors
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