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Eduard Arzt (* [1956 in Linz) is an Austrianphysicist] and [materials scientist. He is the recipient of high-ranking science awards, such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, the Acta Metallurgica Award and the Heyn Medal, the highest award of the German Materials Society. He has recently received a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), followed by two Proof-of-Concept Grants (2017, 2019). He is member of the Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Austria Academy of Sciences, and, since 2020, member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Life
Eduard Arzt received his PhD in physics from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1980. Following a postdoctoral stay at Cambridge University, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart as group leader. After a period as visiting professor at Stanford University, he was appointed, in 1990, as director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research (today the [Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems]) and as professor of metals physics at University of Stuttgart. In 1996 he was appointed visitng professor at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. Since 2007, he has been Scientific Director and CEO of INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbruecken, Germany, and professor for new materials at Saarland University.

Awards and Memberships (Selection)

 * Acta Metallurgica Outstanding Paper Award, 1990
 * Max Planck Research Award (with William D. Nix, Stanford), 1990
 * Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1996
 * R.S. Williams Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
 * Elected as corresponding member of the Austria Academy of Scienceshttps://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/m/arzt-eduard/
 * Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC), 2013, followed by two Proof-of-Concept Grantshttps://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results
 * Heyn Medal by the German Materials Society (DGM), 2017
 * Morris Cohen Award of TMS - the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Pittsburgh, USA, 2020https://www.tms.org/portal/PROFESSIONAL_DEVELOPMENT/Honors___Awards/Morris_Cohen_Award/portal/Professional_Development/Honors___Awards/Morris_Cohen_Award.aspx?hkey=7a3e5f70-2be4-4aa2-94ec-8c32f75f9259
 * Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2020https://www.nae.edu/224723/Dr-Eduard-Arzt