Biography

• since 2014: Senior professor, RWTH Aachen University
• 1989-2013: University professor and head of the Department of Metallurgy and Metalphysics, RWTH Aachen University

Academic background

• 1979: Dr. habil., Fakultät für Bergbau und Hüttenwesen, RWTH Aachen
• 1973: Dr. rer. nat., Fakultät für Bergbau und Hüttenwesen, RWTH Aachen
• 1969: Dipl.-Phys., RWTH Aachen

Research

• Interfaces and materials simulation

Selected publications

Author and co-author of 12 books and more than 400 publications in professional journals, e.g.:

• G. Gottstein, Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik: Physikalische Grundlagen. Berlin/Heidelberg 2014 (4th edition).
• G. Gottstein, L.S. Shvindlerman: Grain Boundary Migration in Metals: Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Applications. Boca Raton (Florida, USA) 2010 (2nd edition).
• I. Lischweski, G. Gottstein: Nucleation and variant selection during the α–γ–α phase transformation in microalloyed steel, in: Acta Materialia 59, Issue 4 (2011), pp. 1530-1541.
• B. Zhao, G. Gottstein, L.S. Shvindlerman: Triple Junction Effects in Solids, in: Acta Materialia 59, Issue 9 (2011), pp. 3510-3518.
• M. Crumbach, M. Goerdeler, G. Gottstein, L. Neumann, H. Aretz, R. Kopp, Through-Process Texture Modelling of Aluminium Alloys , in: Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science 12.1 (2004), pp. 1-18.

Curriculum Vita

• CV Prof. Gottstein

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