Biography:Jan Schroers

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Short description: German physicist and professor
Jan Schroers
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NationalityGerman
OccupationPhysicist
Known For: Metallic Glasses, Nanofabrication, Combinatorial Materials Science
AwardsLee Hsun Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cologne
RWTH Aachen University
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University, California Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen University

Jan Schroers (born 19 July 1967) is a German physicist who works as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. His research focuses on materials science and materials discovery.[1]

Early Life and Education

Schroers was born on July 19, 1967 in Cologne, Germany . He earned his BS and MS at University of Cologne, Germany, in Physics in 1994 before attending RWTH Aachen University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1997. Schroers conducted his postdoctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology in Materials Science from 1998 to 2002.[1]

Career

Schroers joined the faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at Yale University in 2006 as an Associate Professor. In 2012 he was promoted to full professor with tenure. His focus has been on metallic glasses, specifically he discovered and explained ductile metallic glasses,[2] and developed bulk glasses based on gold,[3] and high temperature metallic glasses.[4]

Schroers has also developed nanofabrication methods enabling nanomolding of metallic glasses[5] and recently novel methods that are ubiquitously applicable to all metals and many other materials.[6][7] His focus on processing of advanced materials includes blow-molding of metallic glasses which allows to shape metallic glasses like plastics.[8]

Schroers has also been involved in commercial enterprises including Liquidmetal Technologies, Supercool Metals and Desktop Metal.[citation needed]

Personal life

Schroers has been an Ashtanga Yoga practitioner for over 20 years and studied under Noah Williams.[9]

Awards/Honors

  • 2017 - Lee Hsun Award, Chinese Academy of Science[10]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Jan Schroers". https://seas.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jan-schroers. 
  2. Schroers, J.; Johnson, W. L. (2004). "Ductile bulk metallic glass". Physical Review Letters 93 (25): 255506. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.255506. PMID 15697909. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15697909/. 
  3. Schroers, Jan; Lohwongwatana, Boonrat; Johnson, William L.; Peker, Atakan (2005). "Gold based bulk metallic glass". Applied Physics Letters 87 (6): 061912. doi:10.1063/1.2008374. https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.2008374?journalCode=apl. 
  4. "High-temperature bulk metallic glasses developed by combinatorial methods". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1145-z. 
  5. "Nanomoulding with amorphous metals". https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07718. 
  6. Liu, Z.; Han, G.; Sohn, S.; Liu, N.; Schroers, J. (2019). "Nanomolding of Crystalline Metals: The Smaller the Easier". Physical Review Letters 122 (3): 036101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.036101. PMID 30735412. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30735412/. 
  7. Liu, Naijia; Xie, Yujun; Liu, Guannan; Sohn, Sungwoo; Raj, Arindam; Han, Guoxing; Wu, Bozhao; Cha, Judy J. et al. (2020). "General Nanomolding of Ordered Phases". Physical Review Letters 124 (3): 036102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.036102. PMID 32031828. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.036102. 
  8. "Bulk metallic glasses: A tough new material for manufacturing". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd370rlvT5M&ab_channel=YaleCampus. 
  9. "Ashtanga Yoga Nilayam". http://www.ashtangayoganilayam.net/p/bio.html. 
  10. "Jan Schroers Honored By Chinese Academy of Sciences". https://seas.yale.edu/news-events/news/jan-schroers-honored-chinese-academy-sciences.