Kerstin Eckert

Kerstin Eckert (born August 25, 1966) is a scientist. She is the head of the new Chair of Transport Processes at Interfaces, a combined chair of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and TU Dresden created in October 2016.

Scientific Achievement and Recognitions
 peer-reviewed publications ≥ 126
 invited talks ≥ 30
 fund raising ≥ €4.9m from peer-review based research projects (since 2012)

Academic career
 1991 - 1995 | PhD student, Research Center Dresden-Rossendorf
 1995 - 2001 | Research Assistant, Institute for Aerospace Engineering, TU Dresden
 1996 - 2003 | Parental leave (3-6 month) after the birth of 3 children
 1998 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, "From hexagonal to square convection cells: experimental studies of Bénard convection"
 2001 - 2008 | Group Leader at the Institute for Aerospace Engineering, TU Dresden
 2011 | Habilitation, Mechanical Engineering, TU Dresden
 2008 - 2016 | Group Leader, Institute for Fluid Dynamics, TU Dresden
 Since 2016 | Full Professor, TU Dresden, in joint appointment with Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)

Selected Scientific Activities
 Reviewer for national and international projects (EU, DFG, GIF, FWO, JAXA)
 Reviewer for peer-reviewed scientific journals (incl. PRL, Phys. Fluids, Langmuir, Electrochim. Acta)
 Guest editor Chaos and Eur. Phys.
 Organizer of several international workshops on Marangoni flows and magnetic separation

Projects
 2014 - 2019 | DLR: "Rare-earth ion separation in magnetic gradient fields under different levels of gravitational acceleration"
 2011 - 2017 | DFG-SPP1506 "A combined experimental and numerical approach to analyze the multi-scale structures of solutal Marangoni convection"
 2013 - 2016 | DFG: "Magnetic-field based enhancement of hydrogen production during water electrolysis"
 2012 - 2017 | Helmholtz alliance Limtech: "Magnetic flow control in solidification"
 2013 - 2015 | European Space Agency (ESA): "Chemo-hydrodynamic pattern formation at interfaces", Coordinator

Publications
List of publications at Google Scholar
List of publications at ORCID

References

https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ifvu/tpg/die-professur/inhaber-in
https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=425

Category:1966 births
Category:Living people
Category:Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg alumni