Matthias Kleiner#
| Membership Number: | 2415 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- July 2014 President of the Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft)
- 2007 - 2012 President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2000 - 2002 Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Dortmund - (followed by a term as vice dean until 2005)
- Since 1998 Full Professor, Chair of Forming Technology, Technical University of Dortmund
- 1997 - 2000 Chairman of the Scientific Working Group on Forming Technology (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Umformtechnik (AGU))
- 1995 - 1996 Vice Rector for Planning and Finance at BTU Cottbus’ founding president’s office
- 1994 - 1998 Full Professor (C4), Chair of Design and Manufacturing at the newly founded Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus (BTU Cottbus)
- 1991 Habilitation in the field "Forming Technology", Thesis: "Prozesssimulation in der Umformtechnik" (“Simulation of Forming Processes”)
- 1987 - 1994 Senior Researcher, University of Dortmund
- 1987 Doktor-Ingenieur degree, thesis: "Mehrprozessor-Steuerungen in der Umformtechnik" („Application of Multiprocessor-Controls in Forming Technology“)
- 1982 - 1987 Research Assistant to Prof. E. v. Finckenstein, Chair of Forming Technology, University of Dortmund
Fields of Scholarship
- Production engineering
Honours and Awards
- 1990 Research Prize of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1997 Receipt of the DFG’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2010 Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1998 Election as Ordinary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
