em. Univ. Prof. habil. Dr. rer.nat. Andreas LUDWIG

Curriculum Vitae

1957
born in Hamm (Germany)

10/78 - 10/87
Study of physics at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany)

04/88 - 03/92
Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research Düsseldorf (Germany)

01/92
Dr. rer.nat. at RWTH Aachen (Germany)

04/92 - 03/93
Research assistant at the Foundry Institute at RWTH Aachen (Germany)

04/93 - 10/94
Scholar of the German Science Foundation at EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)

11/94 - 12/02
Research group leader at the Foundry Institute at RWTH Aachen (Germany)

02/99
Habilitation on Material Physics at the RWTH Aachen (Germany)

01/03 - 02/24
Full Professor at Montanuniversitaet Leoben (Austria)

07/04 - 06/11
Head of the Christian-Doppler Laboratory for Multiphase Modeling of Metallurgical Processes, Leoben (Austria)

01/08 - 12/12
Member of the Reviewing Committee for the Leoben’s K2-Center for Materials Engineering, Process Engineering and Product Development (MPPE)

01/08 - 06/17
Scientific area leader of the Leoben’s K2-Center for Materials Engineering, Process Engineering and Product Development (MPPE)

06/09 - 10/21
Member of the Austrian Commitee of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)

10/14 - 09/20
Board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as deputy advisor for Engineering Technology

07/20 - 06/22
Head of the Department Metallurgy

10/20 - Date
Board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as advisor for Material Science


Conference Chairman

- 2nd Int. Conf. Sim & Modelling of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (SteelSim2007) Graz, Sept. 12-14 2007
- 2nd Int. Conf. Advances in Solidification Processes (ICASP-2) Graz, June 17-20 2008
- 3nd Int. Conf. Sim & Modelling of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (SteelSim2009) Leoben, Sept. 8-10 2009
- 13th Int. Conf. Modeling of Casting, Welding and Advanced Solidification Processes (MCWASP2012) Schladming, June 17-22 2012
- Int. Conf. Materials, Processing and Product Engineering (MPPE 2015), Leoben, Nov. 2-5 2015


Referee for Research Foundation

- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft
- Czech Science Foundation

Referee for Ph.D. Thesis or Tenure Track Positions

- RWTH Aachen and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany)
- KTH Stockholm (Sweden)
- EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
- Aalto University, Aalto (Finland)
- Université de Lorraine, Nancy and Aix-Marseille Université , Marseille (France)

Referee for International Journals

- Acta Materialia
- Journal of Crystal Growth
- Metall. Mater. Trans. A
- Metall. Mater. Trans. B
- Materials Letters
- Int. J. Comp. Physics
- steel research international
- Journal of Materials Science
- Int. J. Cast Metals Research
- Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer
- Thermochimica Acta
- Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science Engineering
- ISIJ

Research Interest

- Solidification of Metals and Alloys
- Multiphase Modeling of Transport Phenomena
- Metallurgical Process Simulation
- Interaction of Solidification Structures and Fluid Flow

Publications