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Arrival of Professor Yuri Estrin in March

Yuri Estrin

 

The Department is very excited that the widely known and respected materials expert Professor Yuri Estrin will be joining us in March this year. We thought it a good idea to introduce him to you. He was born and educated in the former Soviet Union. After university studies in Physics and Materials Engineering in Moscow, which he completed with a high distinction, he has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He received his PhD degree from that institution in 1975. In 1977, he came to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. After some turbulent time back in the USSR, his host, Professor Kurt Lücke, offered him a position at his institute in Aachen, which Yuri held until he moved to Hamburg in 1981. In Hamburg, at the newly established University of Technology, he received his habilitation (a higher doctorate) and became Professor of Physical Metallurgy. A next move brought Yuri to Western Australia, where in 1992 he became Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at UWA. This was not an end of his peripatetic career: from 2000 to date, Yuri has had a chair in Physical Metallurgy at Clausthal University of Technology in Germany and will now be joining the Department of Materials Engineering of Monash University, in conjunction with a post in the CSIRO Division of Manufacturing and Materials Technology. In this role he will provide a scientific link between the two institutions and research leadership in new materials development. Yuri’s research will be embedded in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Design in Light Alloys.

Yuri is an internationally recognised expert in the area of Physical Metallurgy, with a strong focus on modelling and computational materials science, light alloys, nanomaterials and novel materials design, to name just a few of his research interests. Yuri’s research is reflected in about 280 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, and also holds several patents. He has received numerous recognitions for his scientific achievements, including a prestigious Humboldt Award (1999) and a Korea Science and Engineering Senior Visitor Award (2005). Currently, Yuri is Adjunct Professor in two Schools of UWA and also at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea. During his scientific career, he has held various administrative jobs, having acted as Head of Department at UWA and Institute Director in Clausthal.