Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Potsdam

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Biomaterialien

Biomolekulare Systeme

Grenzflächen

Kolloidchemie

Theorie & Bio-Systeme

IMPRS - Research School

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Dr. Dr.h.c. Peter Fratzl

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	Professor Dr. Dr.h.c. Peter Fratzl Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Department of Biomaterials 14424 Potsdam, Germany Phone: +49-(0)331-567-9400 Fax: +49-(0)331-567-9402 Email: fratzl Internet: www.mpikg.mpg.de
Personal Data:
	Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Nationality:	13. September 1958 Vienna, Austria Austrian

Curriculum Vitae
	2009-	Honorary Professor (Physics of Biomaterials) at the University of Potsdam
	2007-	Foreign Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
	2004-	Honorary Professor of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin
	2003-	Director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam/Golm, Germany
	1998-2003	Chair of Metal Physics at the University of Leoben (Austria) and Director of the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
	1993-	Scientific advisor to the director of the "Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute of Osteology", Vienna (Austria)
	1993-1994	Visiting Research Fellow at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (UK)
	1986-1998	Assistant and Associate Professor at the Institute for Materials Physics of the University of Vienna (Austria)
	1981-1985	Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna and at "Laboratoire Leon Brillouin" in Saclay (France); Visiting Research Fellow at Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin and at New York University
	1983	Dr. rer. nat. Physics, University of Vienna (Austria)
	1980	Ingénieur Diplômé de l’Ecole Polytechnique Paris (France)

Research Fields:
	Biomimetic materials research. Structure function relation in biological materials Bone and mineral research with biomedical applications: Bone material quality in osteoporosis treatment, materials aspects in bone regeneration Mechanical properties and modeling of composite materials. Solid-state phase transformations More than 300 Publications in scientific journals and books; numerous invited lectures at conferences and institutions
Awards and Distinctions
	2012	Fellow of the Materials Research Society, USA
	2010	Doctor honoris causa, University of Montpellier, France
	2010	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis
	2008	Max Planck Research Prize together with Prof. Robert Langer, MIT, for pioneering work in the field of “Biological and Biomimetic Materials”
	2008	Erwin Ühlinger Memorial Lecture, German Osteological Society
	2007	Herbert Johnson Memorial Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaka, USA
	2007	Seidman Family Memorial Lectures, Technion, Haifa, Israel
	2000	Byk-Tosse Osteology Award
	1998	Lilian B. Clark Lectureship, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA
	1997	Copp-Award of the German Osteological Scociety
	1995	Austrian Government Award for Research in Rheumatology
	1988	Erich Schmid Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ten Selected Papers:
[1]	Kyubock Lee, Wolfgang Wagermaier, Admir Masic, Krishna P. Kommareddy, Mathieu Bennet, Inderchand Manjubala, Seung-Woo Lee, Seung B. Park, Helmut Cölfen, Peter Fratzl Self-Assembly of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate Microlens Arrays Nature Communications 3, 725 / 1 - 7 (2012)
[2]	Matthew J. Harrington, Khashayar Razghandi, Friedrich Ditsch, Lorenzo Guiducci, Markus Rüggeberg, John W. C. Dunlop, Peter Fratzl, Christoph Neinhuis, Ingo Burgert Origami-Like Unfolding of Hydro-Actuated Ice Plant Seed Capsules Nature Communications 2, 337 / 1 - 7 (2011)
[3]	Matthew J. Harrington, Admir Masic, Niels Holten-Andersen, J. Herbert Waite, Peter Fratzl Iron-Clad Fibers: A Metal-Based Biological Strategy for Hard Flexible Coatings Science 328, 216 - 220 (2010)
[4]	Peter Fratzl, Friedrich G. Barth Biomaterial Systems for Mechanosensing and Actuation Nature 462, 442 - 448 (2009)
[5]	P. Fratzl, R. Weinkamer Nature’s hierarchical materials Prog. Mater. Sci. 52, 1263 - 1334 (2007)
[6]	R. Elbaum, L. Zaltzman, I. Burgert, P. Fratzl The Role of Wheat Awns in the Seed Dispersal Unit Science 316, 884 - 886 (2007)
[7]	A. Sidorenko, T. Krupenkin, A. Taylor, P. Fratzl, J. Aizenberg Reversible switching of hydrogel-actuated nanostructures into complex micropatterns Science 315, 487 - 490 (2007)
[8]	H.S. Gupta, J. Seto, W. Wagermaier, P. Zaslansky, P. Boesecke, P. Fratzl Cooperative deformation of mineral and collagen in bone at the nanoscale PNAS 103, 17741 - 17746 (2006)
[9]	J. Aizenberg, J.C. Weaver, M.S. Thanawala, V.C. Sundar, D.E. Morse, P. Fratzl Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: Structural hierarchy from the nanoscale to the macroscale Science 309, 275 - 278 (2005)
[10]	H.J. Gao, B. Ji, I.L. Jäger, E. Arzt, P. Fratzl Materials become insensitive to flaws at nanoscale: Lessons from nature PNAS 103, 5597 - 5600 (2003)