Dr. Martín Abadi
Eduard Arzt EMERITUS
Distinguished Visiting Professor, UCSD
Austria
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  • 2015
  • Mechanical Engineering (Materials) (M.M.E.)
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  • 2015
  • Mechanical Engineering (Materials) (M.M.E.)
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Eduard Arzt is an Austrian physicist and materials scientist.

He is the recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest research award of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Acta Metallurgica Award, and the Heyn-Award, the highest award of the German Materials Society (DGM).

He is a member of the German Leopoldina Academy of Sciences in Halle, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

In 2020, Arzt was elected an international member of the US National Academy of engineering.
 
Arzt has been invited for research stays and endowed lectures, i.a., by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US, the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Case Western Reserve University, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna and Graz Technological University.

He is editor-in-chief of Progress in Materials Science, a review journal in the field of materials science.
 
Arzt has worked in numerous fields of materials science, ranging from high-temperature structural alloys, micro and nanomechanics of thin film materials, mechanisms of electromigration and degradation in miniaturized materials systems to the modeling of materials properties under extreme conditions.

His current research focus lies on the synthesis and characterization of bio-inspired adhesive surfaces and their commercialization in robotics and automation.

He is co-founder and head of the advisory board of a deep tech start-up in robotics and automation.

In 2015, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.

In 2023, he was elected as Emeritus member of the European Academy of Engineering.
 
R.S. Williams Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1997
Member of Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 2002
Advanced Grant, European Research Council (ERC), 2013
Heyn Memorial Coin, DGM, 2017
Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, 2020