Ekhard Salje#


Ekhard Salje
Membership Number:5628
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES
Affiliated section(s):PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:2021
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/ekhard-salje
ORCID:0000-0002-8781-6154



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Present and Previous Positions
  • 2012 - 2016 Visiting Professor Jiao Tong University, Xi’an
  • 2010 Ulam scholar, DOE, Los Alamos National Laboratories
  • 2009 Visiting Professor University Paris VI
  • 2008 Visiting Professor Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Leipzig
  • 2001 - 2008 President Clare Hall College, Cambridge
  • 2001 - 2003 Programme director for Research at the Cambridge-MIT Institute
  • 1998 Visiting Professor at the University of Bilbao, Spain
  • 1997 Visiting Professor at the University of Le Mans
  • 1998 - 2008 Head of Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
  • Since 1998 Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge (Established chair)
  • 1992 Professor of Mineral Physics/Crystallography, University of Cambridge (Personal chair)
  • 1990 Visiting Professor, University of Grenoble
  • 1988 - 1998 Co-Director of the IRC in Superconductivity
  • 1988 Reader in Mineral Physics, Cambridge
  • 1986 - 2001 Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge
  • 1986 Lecturer in Mineral Physics/Crysallography, University of Cambridge
  • 1983 Head of Department at the Institute for Crystallography and Petrology at the University of Hanover
  • 1981 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Paris
  • 1978 Professor of Crystallography, University of Hanover
  • 1976 Hon. Research Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 1975 Lecturer in Crystallograpgy at the University of Hanover

Fields of Scholarship
  • Mineral physics (elastic properties, thermodynamics)
  • Mineral spectroscopy
  • Rock physics
  • Radiation damage
  • Numerical modeling of minerals and structural defects
  • Acoustic emission
  • Phase transitions

Honours and Awards
  • 2020 Honorary Senator (Ehrensenator) Univ. Wuerzburg
  • 2019 Honorary PhD (Dr. Honoris causa, Univ. Wuerzburg)
  • 2012 Honorary Professorship Xi’an JiaoTong University, China
  • 2011 Foreign member of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona
  • 2010 Honorary Fellow Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • 2006 Agricola medal for Applied Mineralogy
  • 2006 Cross of the Order of Merit, first class (Germany)
  • 2004 Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques (France)
  • 2002 Award of the Ernst Ising prize for Physics
  • 2002 Award of the Gold medal of the University of Hamburg
  • 2001 Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge
  • 2000 Award of the Humboldt Research Prize
  • 1998 Award of the Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society
  • 1996 Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 1996 Fellow of RSA, Institute of Physics, and Geological Society
  • 1996 Mombusho Professor (Japan)
  • 1994 Fellow of Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Sciences)
  • 1994 Award of Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal in mineralogy

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