Information
Membership Number: FCA1163
Membership Type: Fellowship
Division: Natural Sciences & Engineering and Applied Sciences
Corresponding Email: herbert.gleiter@partner.kit.edu
Homepage(s): https://www.int.kit.edu/staff_herbert.gleiter.php
"I feel very honored having been elected as a Fellow of the Core Academy. My research has been focused to a large extent on the discovery and the development of new kinds of crystalline and non-crystalline - so-called nanostructured - materials which are characterized by novel atomic structures and novel properties and thus opening the door to a world of new nanostructured materials based technologies. As a result, several hundred thousand papers have been published on nanostructured materials so far and several Research Centers have been founded worldwide in this new field."
Present and Previous Positions
· Since 2023 Director of the Herbert Gleiter International Research Institute (HGII) of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Liaoning Academy of Materials at Shenyang, China
· Since 2021 Founding Director of the Herbert Gleiter International Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Science at Shenyang, China
· Since 2015 Senior Fellow (jointly with the Nobel and Fields Medal Laureates Haroche, Lehn, and Small) of the Institute of Advanced Studies, City University of Hong Kong
· Since 2012 Founding Director of the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
· Since 2006 Professor and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
· 2007 - 2010 Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA
· 2005 Distinguished Scholar of the Korean Research Foundation, Seoul, Korea
· 2004 - 2007 Kuang-pui Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
· 1998 - 2004 Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany
· 1998 Founding Director (jointly with Profs. J M Lehn and D. Fenske) of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany
· 1994 - 1998 Member of the Executive Board of the Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany
· 1987 - 1994 Founding Director of the Institute of New Materials, Saarbruecken, Germany
· 1982 Call to the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
· 1980 Call to the University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
· 1973 -1994 Professor/Director of the Institute of Material Science, University of the Saarland, Germany
· 1972 Professor, Institute of Materials Science, University Bochum, Germany
· 1971 Visiting Scientist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA
· 1970 D. Sc. (Habilitation) in Material Science at the University of Bochum, Germany
· 1966 - 1969 Research Fellow at Harvard University Cambridge, USA
· 1966 Ph.D. in Physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany
· 1959-1965 Student of Mechanical Engineering and Physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany
Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests
Applied Physics; Materials Sciences, Nanotechnology
Professor Gleiter and his research group opened the way to a new kind of materials, called today nano-crystalline materials. In fact, today more than 800 papers are published annually in this area of Materials Science and about 6 to 8 international conferences on nano-materials are organized every year. One of his pioneering papers on nano-crystalline materials has been cited so far more than 4000 times. In recent years, Herbert Gleiter expanded the field of Materials Science by developing nanostructured non-crystalline materials that are called today nano-glasses. Nano-glasses can be produced with atomic structures and/or with chemical compositions that cannot be generated in the form of crystalline materials or in the form of the glassy materials we have today resulting in new properties of nano-glasses. The utilization of these new properties permits the development of new technologies In other words, nano-glasses may open the way into a “glass age” that would be based on the new properties of nano-glasses, similar to the bronze or iron age that were based on the new properties of bronze or iron when they were discovered.
Honors, Awards and Other Membership
1998 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences – Leopoldia, Germany,
2004 Member of the US National Academy of Engineering
2004 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2006 Member of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
2007-12 Vice President of the German National Academy of Sciences
2009 Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2009 Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2011 Member of the Indian Science Academy
2014 Member of the Academia Europaea
2014 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2015 Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences
2016 Member of the US National Academy of Inventors
2023 Member of the Chinese National Academy of Sciences
2023 Member of the Liaoning Academy of Materials
Honorary Membership
1985 Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
1994 Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society of India
1996 Honorary Fellow of the Materials Research Society of India
2008 Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS), USA
2009 Honorary Member of the German Materials Society
2011 Honorary Member of the American Nano Society
2011 Fellow of the Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling
2011 Fellow of the Indian Society of Mathematical Modelling and Simulation
2011 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), USA
Honors and Awards
2020 Senior Fellow of the University of Lanzhou and the Chinese Academy of Science
2020 Honorary Doctor of Lanzhou University
2020 Researcher of the Year, Advanced Materials Letters
2019 Advanced Materials Laureate of the International Association of Advanced Materials
2018 Jan Czochralski Medal and Award, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw University,
2016 Friendship Award and Medal of Merit of Chinese Government, Jiangsu, China
2015 Corthenius Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences - Leopoldina
2015 Honorary Doctor of the City University of Hong Kong
2014 2014 Distinguished Lecturer, University of Hong Kong
2012 Zijin Chair Professor Award of the Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience of the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
2012 Nanomaterials Award 2012
2012 Edward DeMille Campbell Award, American Society for Metals (ASM)
2009 R.F. Mehl Award of the Minerals, Metals, Materials Society, USA
2009 Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences, Belgium
2009 NANO Today Award of the Agency for Science, Technology Research, Singapore
2008 Honorary Doctor of the University of Muenster, Germany
2008 Honorary Doctor of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Achievement Award NANOSPD Int. Steering Committee
2008 Staudinger-Durrer Award of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Honorary Member of the German Materials Society DGM
2008 Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society, USA
2007 Gold Medal of Acta Materialia
2006 Humboldt Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2005 Distinguished Scholar of the Korean Research Foundation
2004 Honorary Professor of Lanzhou University, PR China
2004 H. Lee Lecture Award of Chinese Academy of Science
2004 Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, PR China
2003 Nanomaterials Award of the Deutsche Bank, Germany
2002 Honorary Doctor of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
2000 Van Horn Award of Case Western University Cleveland, USA
1999 Werner Heisenberg Medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
1998 Heyn Medal of the German Society for Materials Science
1995 Gold Medal of the Federation of European Material Societies (FEMS), Belgium
1993 Vinci of Excellence Award of the Hennessy-Vuitton Foundation, France
1993 Max-Planck-Research Prize of the Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck-Society, Germany
1992 Member of the President’s Council of the University of Illinois, USA
1992 TMS Lecture Award of the minerals, Metals and Materials Society
1991 Order of Merit of Saarland, Germany
1988 Leibniz Prize of the German National Science Foundation (DFG)
1984 Alcoa Prize of the Alcoa Foundation, USA
1979 Karl-Schurz Award of the University of Wisconsin, USA
1972 Masing Prize of the German Society for Metals
Selected Publications
Web of Science Citation Index: more than 300 publications; sum of all citations: 35 000; h - index: 87
Three Most Highly Cited Publications
Nanocrystalline materials. H. Gleiter Progress in Materials Science 33 223-315 (1989) Times cited 3500
Nanostructured materials. Basic Concepts and Microstructure H. Gleiter Acta Materialia 48 1-29 (2000) Times cited 2800
Ceramics ductile at low temperatures. J. Karch, R. Birringer, H. Gleiter Nature 330 556-558 (1987) Times cited 2100
Other Information
https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Gleiter_Herbert
https://www.nae.edu/30851/Dr-Herbert-Gleiter
https://www.amacad.org/person/herbert-gleiter
https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Gleiter_Herbert_EN.pdf