User:Nilsclaussen/Personal biography

Nils Claussen

1937	April 20, born in Hamburg, Germany. 1959	Engineer, Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherland. 1962	Engineer, American-Israeli Paper Mills, Hadera, Israel. 1963	MS (Dipl.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Stuttgart. 1965	MS in Metallurgy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. 1968	Head Special Ceramics Group, Max-Planck-Institute of Metals Research. 1971	Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Chemical Engineering, University of Stuttgart. 1985	Professor (C4) of Ceramics, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) and Head of Advanced Ceramics Group. 1998	President of Advisory Board of The World Academy of Ceramics. 1998	Chairman of Department Materials/Design/Manufacturing of TUHH. 2002       Retired October 1, now living in Freiburg, Germany.

Awards

1963/65  World Student Fund Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. 1978	DECHEMA Prize, German Society of Chemical Engineers. 1982	Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. 1983	Distinguished Ceramist of Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. 1984	Kraner Award, Lehigh Valley Section, American Ceramic Society. 1987	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, German Research Foundation (DFG). 1989	Member, the World Academy of Ceramics. 1993	Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of Japan. 1996	International Prize of the Japanese Fine Ceramics Association. 1997	Ceramic Society of Japan Award for Academic Achievements in Ceramic Science and Technology. 1999	Stuijts Award of the European Ceramic Society. 2000	Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society. 2001	Engineering Ceramic Bridge Building Award, The American Ceramic Society. 2002	John Jeppson Award, The American Ceramic Society.

Nils Claussen authored or coauthored more than 270 papers and owns 35 patents. . He was guest professor at the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile (1974), at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (1980), at CSIRO Melbourne (1985 and 1991) and at CSIRO Sydney (1996). He is member of several professional societies, and has organized various conferences and symposia.