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 |
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