Ekhard Salje completed his University Teacher's Dissertation in 1972, and by 1983 was the Head of Department at the Institute for Crystallography and Petrology at the Leibniz University Hannover.
10 Facts About Ekhard Salje
Ekhard Salje worked jointly in the Department of Physics Cavendish Laboratory.
Ekhard Salje's work includes the study of structural phase transitions, the formation of polaronic states in transition metal oxides like WO3, and ferroelasticity.
Ekhard Salje discovered avalanche behaviour by experiment and computer simulation in ferroelastics, ferroelectrics and martensitic alloys.
Ekhard Salje is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and was chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences.
Ekhard Salje was chairman of the Cambridge e-science Centre and chairman of the steering committee of the Cambridge Environmental Initiative which advises on environmental research in Cambridge.
Ekhard Salje was president of the British branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Association.
Ekhard Salje was chairman of the Cambridge European Trust, member of the Wissenschaftsrat, Int.
Professor Ekhard Salje has been visiting professor in Japan, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Univers.
Ekhard Salje has published over 700 scientific papers and 3 books.