Christoph Eberl

Junior Research Group of Dr. Christoph Eberl

Research Focus

Reliability of micro components, size effects and scaling laws in materials 

Employment and Work Experience

Independent Group Leader, ‘Universität Karlsruhe’, Karlsruhe, Germany

Visiting Scientist at the ‘Johns Hopkins University’, Baltimore, USA.

01/2005 – 04/2007    

‘Postdoctoral Fellow’ at ‘Whiting School of Engineering’, ‘Johns Hopkins University’, Baltimore, MD, USA

05/2004 - 01/2005    

Sci. Associate at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Project: ‘Center of Competence for Casting and Thixoforging CCT’

05/2001 - 04/2004    

Sci. Associate at the University of Stuttgart and the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Project: ‘Microstructural stability of Surface Acoustic Wave Frequency Filter test devices’, in cooperation with EPCOS AG

Education and Qualifications

05/2001 - 12/2004    

PhD in Materials Science, University of Stuttgart and Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Title: Fatigue of thin Al films at ultra-high frequencies

10/1995 - 03/2001    

‚Diplom Ingenieur’ of Materials Science (equiv. to Master’s Degree), University of Stuttgart

Stipends and Awards

05/2009

OAP (Fellow-Inbound) Programm, National University of Singapore

08/2007

Best Poster Award, Thermal Barrier Coating Conference 2007, Irsee, Germany

11/2006 – 04/2007

Stipend awarded from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart
06/2006

Otto Hahn Medal for Young Scientists of the Max Planck Society

University Classes at the Universität Karlsruhe

Mechanics of Microsystems, O. Kraft, C. Eberl
Size Scale Effects in Micro- and Nanostructured Systems, P. Gumbsch, D. Weygand, C. Eberl, P. Gruber, M. Dienwiebel

Other Activities at the KIT

Vice Chair of the Young Investigator Network (YIN) at KIT
Organization of KIT booth and reception at the MRS Fall Meeting 2008
Representing YIN and KIT at the GAIN conference in Boston 2008

Conference Symposium (Co)Organization

MRS Fall Meeting 2008, December 2008, ‘Small-Scale Deformation: Progress Towards Understanding Length-Scale Effects & Advances in Experimental Methods’.

Materials Science and Engineering, 1-4. September 2008, Germany, ‘Mechanical Testing‘.

8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM VIII - ECCOMAS 2008), Venice, Italy, July 2008, ‘Multiscale Mechanics of Interfaces’.

Reviews for:

Science (AAAS), Scripta Materialia (Elsevier), Surface and Coatings Technology (Elsevier), Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Sage), MRS Conference Proceedings