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PhD, University of Vienna, Austria, and Rutgers University, USA
MAIN FOCUS
- Mechanobiological systems bone processes in living bone like
- Bone remodeling, healing and mineralization
- Porosity of bone on different length scales
- Computer modeling of mechanics, growth and adaptation of biological materials
- Structure-function relations and mechanical properties of hierarchically structured biological tissues
- Use of scanning acoustic microscopy for a micromechanical characterization of biological materials
- Phase transformation in natural and artificial materials
CURRICULUM VITAE
Academic Qualifications
Studies of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, University of Vienna, 1985-1995
Master in Mathematics, University of Vienna, 1995
PhD in Physics, University of Vienna and Rutgers University, USA, 1995-2000
Doctoral Thesis: Diffusion and diffusional phase transformations in binary alloys
Academic Career
2000-2003
Postdoc at the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Leoben
Since 04/2003
Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces
Since 06/2012
Associated Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”, Humboldt University Berlin
https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory.hu-berlin.de/en
07/2012
Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, Humboldt University Berlin
Habilitation Thesis: Processes in living bone and the resulting structural changes – computational studies
Since 03/2014
Associated Investigator of the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT)
https://www.bsrt.de/
Contact
Email: richard.weinkamer@mpikg.mpg.de
Phone: +49 331 567 9410