Wikipedia: Christoph Beckermann

Education

• Grundschule Hellern (Elementary School), Osnabrueck, Germany, 1965 to 1969
• Gymnasium Carolinum (High School), Osnabrueck, Germany, 1969 to 1978 (Abitur, 1978)
• Military Service, Germany, 1978 to 1979 (I guess, this was no education...)
• University of Hannover (Maschinenbau), Germany, 1979 to 1982 (Vordiplom, 1981)
• Purdue University (Mechanical Engineering), USA, 1982 to 1987 (M.S.M.E., 1984; Ph.D., 1987)

Positions

• University of Iowa (UI), USA, 1987 to present
  • Assistant Professor, 1987
  • Associate Professor, 1992
  • Professor, 1996
  • UI Foundation Distinguished Professor, 2000 to present

Selected Service Activities

• Professional Societies: ASME (Fellow), TMS (Life Member), ASM, ASEE, AFS
• Board of Review, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 1992 to 2012
• Associate Editor, ASME J. Heat Transfer, 1998 to 2001
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 1999 to present
• Editorial Board, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 2006 to 2020
• Advisory Board and Board of Review, International Journal of Metalcasting, 2007 to present
• Co-Chair, Modeling of Casting, Welding, and Advanced Solidification Processes VIII conference, 1998
• Member of Scientific or Organizing Committees of 16 International Conferences
• Symposium Organizer or Session Chair at 17 International Conferences
• Chair, Engineering Faculty Council (EFC), 2006-07
• Director, Undergraduate Program in Mechanical Engineering, 2010-14
• Member of International START and Wittgenstein Award Committee, FWF Austrian Science Fund, 2016-22

Awards and Honors

• Fulbright Award, 1982-84
• Herrick Laboratories Fellowship, Purdue University, 1982-84
• National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989
• Marcus A. Grossmann Young Author Award (Best Paper in Metallurgical Transactions by authors under 40 years of age), ASM International, 1995
• Chairman's Award, American Metalcasting Consortium, 2001
• Acta Materialia Outstanding Referee Award, 2003
• College of Engineering Exceptional Service Award, 2002
• Sir Humphrey Davy Scientific Merit Award, American Foundry Society (AFS), 2009
• Thomas E. Barlow Award of Honor, Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA), 2009
• Bruce Chalmers Award, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2010
• College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Research, 2011
• Highly Cited Paper, Web of Science, 2014
• Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Award, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2017
• Heat Transfer Memorial Award (Science Category), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2017
• Nagy El-Kaddah Award for Best Paper in MHD in Material Processing, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2021
• The Founders' Choice Award (for excellence of paper presented at 2021 T&O Conference), Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA), 2022

Other Numbers

• 13 Invited Conference Keynote/Plenary Lectures
• 45 Invited Lectures at Conference Symposia or Sessions
• 10 Invited Journal Papers and Book Chapters
• 60 Invited Seminars at Universities, National Laboratories and Companies
• 25 Ph.D. Students and 23 M.S. Students Graduated
• 12 Post-docs/Research Engineers and 20 Visiting Scholars Supervised
• 25 Times Instructor in "Solidification Course" in Switzerland
• $20 Million (roughly) in External Research Funding Secured

Research Interests

• Solidification Science
• Metal Casting
• Thermal and Fluid Sciences

Publications (updated November 2023)

• 161 refereed journal papers, 174 conference papers, 6 edited books
• Web of Science author search (citations: ~11,000; h-index: 50)
• Google Scholar: most recent publications
• Google Scholar: citation record (citations: ~19,000; h-index: 61)

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