Ekhard Salje

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Professor Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje, FRS, (b. 1946), is Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.

Education and Career

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 University of Hanover. In 1985 he moved to Cambridge where was awarded a Professorship in Mineral Physics in the Department of Earth Sciences in 1992.

In 1998 he assumed the post of Head of Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, which he retains until October 2008.

In October 2001 he became President of Clare Hall, a post he held until 2008 when he was succeeded by Sir Martin Harris. [Clare Hall elects New President http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008030305]

Research

Professor Salje's research is focused in the field of mineralogy and mineral physics using approaches that combine theoretical and experimental methods. In particular, he is concerned with the stability of minerals and the transformation processes that occur within them in response to changes in temperature and pressure. His work in the field of mineral physics was rewarded in 1996 when he was the very first German ever to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.Professor Ekhard Salje awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany [http://www.london.diplo.de/Vertretung/london/en/04/News__and__Events/2007/Salje__Ordensverleihung__190107/Salje__Ordensverleihung__190107__seite.html] ] This has been followed more recently by him being awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007.

He is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences. As Programme Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) he was responsible for joint research in the field of Future Technologies. He is chairman of the Cambridge e-science Centre and chairman of the steering committee of the Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI) which advises on all environmental research in Cambridge. He is president of the British branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Selected Bibliography

He has published over 300 scientific papers and 2 books.

Awards

* Fellow of Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Sciences), 1994
* Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal in mineralogy, 1994
* Fellow of the Royal Society, 1996
* Mombusho Professor, Institute of Physics and Geological Society, Japan, 1996
* Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society, 1998
* Humboldt Research Prize, 2000
* Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, 2001
* Ernst Ising prize for Physics, 2002
* Gold medal of the University of Hamburg, 2002
* Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques, 2004
* Agricola medal for Applied Mineralogy, 2006
* Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, first class (Germany), 2006

References

External links

* [http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/index.php/People/Academic%20Staff/68-professor-ekhard-salje Personal web page at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge]
* [http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=67 Presidents web page at Clare Hall]
* [http://www.cei.group.cam.ac.uk/directory/people/record.html?id=75 CEI Profile page]