Hans Jürgen Herrmann

Prof. em. Dr. Hans Jürgen Herrmann

Relation

Professor emeritus

Contact Data

Fax: +41 44 633 13 75
Tel. (Alt.): +41 44 633 07 36
Tel. (Sec.): +41 44 633 27 93

https://blog.espci.fr/hans/

Address

ETH Zürich
Hans Jürgen Herrmann
Institut für Baustoffe (IfB)
HIF  E 14.1
Laura-Hezner-Weg 7
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Other Addresses
Hans Jürgen Herrmann
PMMH, ESPCI Paris
7 quai St. Bernard
75005 Paris
France
Organisations Professor Emeritus at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
http://www.baug.ethz.ch/
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Hans Jürgen Herrmann is theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Building Materials.

Born on January 1st, 1954 in La Habana, Cuba, and raised in Bogotá, he studied physics in Göttingen and Cologne where he made his PhD in 1981. After spending one year as post-doc in the USA he became collaborator at the Service de Physique Théorique in Saclay. He became member of section 02 of the CNRS and is today Directeur de Recherche 1ère Cl. en mise à disponibilité. In 1990 he was head of the many-body group at HLRZ of KFA Jülich for four years. Then he was director of the PMMH of ESPCI, Paris for six years, where he also filled a chair. In 1996, he was named full professor and director of the Institute of Computer Physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (1986), member of the Brazilian Academy of Science, Max-Planck prize recipient (2002) and won the Gentner-Kastler prize (2005), is a APS Fellow (2007), received an IBM Faculty Award (2009), received an ERC Advanced Grant (2012), is a member of the Colombian Academy of Science (2012) and he received the Aneesur Rahman prize 2018. He is managing editor of International Journal of Modern Physics C and of Granular Matter and member of several editorial boards and committees including the Forschungskommission of ETH. He has co-authored over 700 publications and co-edited 13 books.

His education is based on theoretical solid state physics (master) and statistical physics of critical phenomena (PhD). After his PhD he worked among others on gelation and irreversible growth and built a special purpose computer to calculate the conductivity of percolation clusters. He has studied the fracture of heterogeneous materials since 1986 and since 1992, he has investigated the properties of granular media. Highlights in this research were the construction of space-filling bearings and the establishment of the equations of motion of dunes. His present research subjects include dense colloids, the formation of river deltas, quicksand, the failure of fibrous and polymeric composites and complex networks.

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