Curriculum Vitae Peter Fratzl

Year of Birth: 1958 in Vienna, Austria

Training:
"Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles Scientifiques", Strasbourg, France (1976-1978);
"Ecole Polytechnique" in Paris, France (1978-1980), Ingenieur Diplomé de l'Ecole Polytechnique, 1980
Dr.rer.nat (physics), University of Vienna, 1983.
"Habilitation" in solid state physics, 1991

Scientific Career:
1981-1985: Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, and at "Laboratoire Leon Brillouin" in Saclay (France). Visiting Research Fellow at Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin and at New York University.
1986-1998: Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute for Materials Physics of the University of Vienna (Austria).
Summer 1988 and 1989: Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA).
Since 1993: Research Associate at the "Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute of Osteology", Vienna (Austria).
September 1993 till June 1994: Visiting Research Fellow at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK).
May - September 1997: Visiting Professor (C3) in the Physics Department of the University of Munich (Germany)
February 1998 – August 2003: Chair of Metal Physics at the Univ. Leoben (Austria) and Director of the Erich Schmid Institute for Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Since February 2003: Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam, Germany.
Since 2004: Honorary Professor in the Physics Department of the Humboldt University Berlin

Awards
Erich Schmid Preis der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1988,
Osterreichischer Staatspreis für Grundlagenforschung auf dem Gebiet der Rheumatologie 1995,
Copp-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteologie 1997,
Lilian B. Clark Lectureship (Univ. Texas at Dallas) 1998
Byk-Tosse Osteologie-Preis 2000.
More than 200 Publications in scientific journals and books; numerous invited lectures at conferences.
Referee for various science foundations (e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Wellcome Trust, Volkswagenstiftung, Europ. Commission) und a number of Journals. Member of Review Committees at ESRF (Grenoble), ELETTRA (Trieste), HMI (Berlin), PSI (Zürich), Helmholtz Gemeinschaft.

Research Interests:
Materials Research using (synchrotron) x-ray and neutron scattering techniques; development of scanning x-ray methods for materials characterization.
Kinetics of solid-state phase transformations (Experiments and computer modeling)
Relation between (nano-)structure and mechanical properties in complex materials, such as composites, wood or biological connective tissue (tendon, cornea, bone).
Biomimetic materials research.
Bone and mineral research with biomedical applications

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