Ekhard Salje
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Professor Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje, FRS, (b. 1946), is Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences
, Cambridge University.
In 1998 he assumed the post of Head of Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
, which he retained until October 2008.
In October 2001 he became President of Clare Hall, a post he held until 2008 when he was succeeded by Sir Martin Harris
.
was rewarded in 1996 when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This has been followed more recently by him being awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007.
He is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and was chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences. As Programme Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute
(CMI) he was responsible for joint research in the field of Future Technologies. He was chairman of the Cambridge e-science Centre and chairman of the steering committee of the Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI) which advises on environmental research in Cambridge. He was president of the British branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Association.He is currently chairman of the Cambridge European Trust (CET)and board member of EIT+ (Wroslaw, Poland), Wissenschaftsrat (Germany), Int. Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (UK).
Professor Salje has been visiting professor in Japan (mombusho chair), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Univers. Paris VI, Bilbao, Grenoble, Le Mans.
University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. The main location of the department is at the Downing Site, Downing St. The Bullard Laboratories, located in West Cambridge on Madingley Rd, and the Godwin Laboratory, in the New Museums Site...
, Cambridge University.
Education and career
Ekhard Salje completed his University Teacher’s Dissertation in 1972, and by 1983 was the Head of Department at the Institute for Crystallography and Petrology at the University of Hanover. In 1985 he moved to Cambridge where was awarded a Professorship in Mineral Physics in the Department of Earth Sciences in 1992.In 1998 he assumed the post of Head of Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. The main location of the department is at the Downing Site, Downing St. The Bullard Laboratories, located in West Cambridge on Madingley Rd, and the Godwin Laboratory, in the New Museums Site...
, which he retained until October 2008.
In October 2001 he became President of Clare Hall, a post he held until 2008 when he was succeeded by Sir Martin Harris
Martin Harris (academic)
Professor Sir Martin Best Harris CBE , MA PhD LLD is a British academic and Professor of Linguistics.He was born at Ruabon, Wales, the son of William Best Harris, afterwards City Librarian of Plymouth, and educated at Devonport High School for Boys in Plymouth, and at Queens' College, Cambridge...
.
Research
Professor Salje's research is focused in the field of mineralogy and mineral physics using approaches that combine theoretical and experimental methods. In particular, he is concerned with the stability of minerals and the transformation processes that occur within them in response to changes in temperature and pressure. His work in the field of mineral physicsMineral physics
Mineral physics is the science of materials that compose the interior of planets, particularly the Earth. It overlaps with petrophysics, which focuses on whole-rock properties...
was rewarded in 1996 when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This has been followed more recently by him being awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007.
He is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and was chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences. As Programme Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute
Cambridge-MIT Institute
The Cambridge–MIT Institute, or CMI, is a partnership between the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
(CMI) he was responsible for joint research in the field of Future Technologies. He was chairman of the Cambridge e-science Centre and chairman of the steering committee of the Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI) which advises on environmental research in Cambridge. He was president of the British branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Association.He is currently chairman of the Cambridge European Trust (CET)and board member of EIT+ (Wroslaw, Poland), Wissenschaftsrat (Germany), Int. Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (UK).
Professor Salje has been visiting professor in Japan (mombusho chair), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig, Univers. Paris VI, Bilbao, Grenoble, Le Mans.
Awards
- Fellow of Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Sciences), 1994
- Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal in mineralogy, 1994
- Fellow of the Royal SocietyRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
, 1996 - Mombusho Professor, Institute of Physics and Geological Society, Japan, 1996
- Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society, 1998
- Humboldt Research Prize, 2000
- Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, 2001
- Ernst IsingErnst IsingErnst Ising was a German physicist, who is best remembered for the development of the Ising model. He was a professor of physics at Bradley University until his retirement in 1976.-Life:Ernst Ising was born in Cologne in 1900...
prize for Physics, 2002 - Gold medal of the University of Hamburg, 2002
- Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes AcademiquesPalmes académiquesThe Ordre des Palmes Académiques is an Order of Chivalry of France for academics and cultural and educational figures...
, 2004 - Agricola medal for Applied Mineralogy, 2006
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, first class (Germany), 2006
- Foreign member of the Royal Soc. of Barcelona for Arts and Sciences, 2010