Gauckler, Ludwig

Ludwig J. Gauckler has been full Professorof Non-metallic, Inorganic Materials at the ETH Zurich since 1988.

He received his degree in physics at the University of Stuttgart and his Ph.D. in materials science in 1977. He carried out research as senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Metals and Materials Research in Stuttgart in the area of high performance structural and functional ceramics. In 1977 he joined the Materials Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 1979 to 1988 he conducted research on ceramic products and ceramic processing in the central laboratories of Alusuisse-Lonza AG where he was responsible for the inorganic non-metallic materials development. Since 1988 he has been Professor of "Non-metallic Materials" in the Department of Material Science at the ETH Zurich and is guest professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

His research interests include High Tc-superconductors, computer assisted modeling of thermodynamics and heterogeneous phase equilibria, mixed ionic-electronic conducting oxides for fuel cells and sensors and colloidal chemistry for ceramic processing of complex microstructures.

Ludwig Gauckler and his co-workers received several national and international awards for their work on colloid chemistry and high temperature solid oxide fuel cells.

He is president of the scientific advisory board of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (SATW); member of the Academy of Ceramics; fellow of the American Ceramic Society and serves on the governing boards of several high-tech companies. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Electroceramics.

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