Prof.

John Banhart
Head, Institute of Applied Materials
Helmholtz Centre Berlin for materials and Energy
Hahn Meitner Platz 1, Berlin, Germany
Chair, Structure and Properties of Materials, Technische
Universitat Berlin

His work mainly focussed upon light metallic materials and the methods to explore their
structure using neutrons and synchrotron X-rays. Among the materials studied are aluminium
alloys, aluminium foams and aluminium-based glasses, and the most useful methods are 3D
imaging (tomography) to study the structure on the micrometre scale or larger, and small-angle
scattering which is useful to resolve the nanostructure of these materials

Ageing and precipitation in aluminium alloys

Casting alloys and liquid metal properties
Metallic glasses and nano-crystalline alloys
High-temperature alloys
Cellular materials
Fuel cells
Energy storage
Neutron imaging
X-ray imaging
Electronic structure

Academic Profile:
Nov./Dec. 2012

Prof. Brahm Prakash Visiting Professor at the Department of

Materials Engineering of Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
Bangalore, India

from 2009

Head of the Institute of Applied Materials of the HelmholtzCentre Berlin (new organisation after merger of HMI and
BESSY)

Oct. 2008 March 2009

Visiting scientist at CSIRO - Materials Science and

Engineering, Clayton/Melbourne, Australia

Oct. 2005 Sept. 2008

Head of the Division "Structural Research" (SF) at the HahnMeitner-Institute

from 2002

Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and

Head of the Department of Engineering Materials (SF3) at the
Hahn-Meitner-Institute

1995 2001

Senior researcher at the Fraunhofer-Institute in Bremen,

Germany

1998

2-nd PhD ("Venia Legendi" or "Habilitation") in Solid State

Physics

1996 1998

Lecturer at the University of Bremen (Faculty of Physics) for

Solid State Physics

1993 1995

Lecturer at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences (FH),

Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in
Materials Science

1991 1995

Postdoctoral position at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied

Materials Research in Bremen, Germany

1989

PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich,

Germany

1986

Research visit to the University of Vienna and Technical

University of Vienna, Austria

1984

Diploma (equiv. to MSc) in Physics at the University of

Munich, Germany

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal: 277

Conference and handbooks: 162
Patents: 11
Miscellaneous Papers (popular science, public relations articles, newsletter contributions,

annual reports): 55
Books: 16
Total Citation: 9613
H-Index: 47
No. of PhD: 29