Material Science and Engineering of NiTi Shape Memory Alloys: Fundamentals, Microstructure, Processing and Applications

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After receiving his PhD in Engineering at the University of Erlangen Germany Prof. Gunther Eggeler went on with his research at the EPFL Switzerland. His research interests include Elementary deformation processes high temperature materials Martensitic transformations Shape memory alloys Transmission and scanning electron microscopy Quantitative metallography High temperature solid state reactions solidification processes and interaction of solids with gases and melts Modelling of deformation and transformation processes. His broad international experiences include 3 years in England as Senior Principal Metallurgist at ERA Technology a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University USA and a visiting scholar at the Centro Atomico der Bariloche Argentina. In 2008 he was Brahm Prakash Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He is currently director of the chair of Materials Science at the Ruhr-University Bochum Speaker of the International Max Planck Research School SurMat (Surface and Interface Engineering in Advanced Materials) and since 2000 director of a Research Center on Shape Memory Technology SFB 459 funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG.