Birgit Skrotzki (born 1963 in Bochum) is the head of the division Experimental and Model Based Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at the

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and an extraordinary professor at

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Education

Skrotzki received her diploma in Mechanical Engineering (specialization in Materials Science) at the

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in 1987. From 1993 to 1995, she was a research associate in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at the

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. In 1992, she finished her doctorate on Temperatures and Course of Martensitic Transformation in Iron Alloys. From 1995 to 2003, she was the head of the Light Metals group at the Institute for Materials at the

. From 1998 to 2003, she was also the chief engineer at the Institute of Materials at the

. In 2000, she completed her habilitation on Mechanical Loading of Light Alloys at Elevated Temperature. In 2003, she became head of the division "Experimental and Model Based Mechanical Behaviour of Materials" at the

. In 2011, she also became an extraordinary professor at

Research

She is a specialist in High-Temperature Materials. Her research focuses on the following topics: * Mechanical Behaviour of metals and composites at high temperature and under complex loading * Relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties * Microstructural stability

Selected publications

Awards

* Buehler Award for the best technical publication in "Practical Metallography" in 1997 * Tammann Commemorative Medal of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde in 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skrotzki, Birgit Engineers from North Rhine-Westphalia 1963 births Living people People from Bochum 20th-century German women engineers 21st-century German women engineers 20th-century German engineers 21st-century German engineers Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin