Eduard Arzt

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 Since 2023, Eduard Arzt is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University of California San Diego.

Professional activities

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.

Awards and prizes

Masing Award, German Materials Society (DGM), 1985 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, German Ministry for Education and Research, 1988 Acta Metallurgica Outstanding Paper Award, 1990 Max-Planck-Forschungspreis (with William D. Nix, Stanford), 1990 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1996 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