Professor Robert F. Singer

Professor Singer was born on 17 April 1950 in Jena, Germany. He graduated from University of Erlangen, Faculty of  Material Studies. In 1978 he completed his awarded  Ph.D.  dissertation under Professor Ilschner’s supervision /direction. He worked at Stanford University with Professor Nix on alloys’ deformation mechanisms. Then, he worked for the Swiss electrical engineering firm Asea Brown Boveri.

Since 1991, Robert  Singer holds a position of  professor and director at the Institute of Metals Science and Technology of the University of Erlangen and, simultaneously, he is a head of the Central Institute of Advanced Materials and Processes as well as a General Manager of the Neue Materialien Fürth GmbH. Both the Central Institute of Advanced Materials and Processes and Neue Materialien Fürth GmbH are institutions set up to support interdisciplinary research and transfer of scientific results into commercial application.

Robert Singer received a great number if distinctions during his career, such as: the Georg-Sachs Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Metallkunde and the Lee-Hsun Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a professor at the University of Delft and the University of Bremen; he managed the FhG-Institute IFAM. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Bavarian State President. From 2006 to 2007, Professor Singer served as President of the Federation of European Materials Societies in London.

Professor Singer has an output of more than 80 publications in renowned scientific journals. He has co-authored a textbook on materials science and processing (B. Ilscher, R.F. Singer, Werkstoffwissenschaften und Fertigungstechnik, Springer, 4, Auflage, 2005).

Professor Singer will visit Warsaw University of Technology from April to June, 2011 and will be hosted by Professors: Krzysztof  Kurzydłowski and Stanisław Janeczko.