Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Jürgen Maier

 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Jürgen Maier, born in 1960, studied materials science in Erlangen. He received his doctorate in 1990 with a thesis on the influence of environmental media on the fatigue behavior of steels. After completing his doctorate, he became head of the electron microscopy working group and moved to the University of Siegen as a senior research engineer in 1993. After a research stay in the USA, he was appointed to the Chair of Materials Science at the University of Paderborn in 1999. Since October 2012, he has headed the Institute of Materials Science at Leibniz Universität Hannover. His research focuses on the investigation of microstructure-property relationship and the development of validated models that enable the prediction of the behavior of severely loaded materials under practice-relevant conditions.