Ekhard Salje

Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje, FRS (born 1946) is Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.

Professor Ekhard K. H. Salje

FRS
Personal details
Born (1946-10-26) 26 October 1946
Hanover
NationalityGerman and British
6th President of Clare Hall, Cambridge
In office
2001–2008
Preceded byDame Gillian Beer
Succeeded bySir Martin Harris

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 Leibniz University Hannover. 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, 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.[1]

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 physics was rewarded in 1996 when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2] This has been followed more recently by him being elected Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques (France) in 2004 and awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007.[2] He is fellow of the Leopoldina (Nat. Academy of Germany) and the Royal Society of the Arts and Sciences of Barcelona.

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 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 was chairman of the Cambridge European Trust and board member of EIT+ (Wrocław, Poland), Wissenschaftsrat (Germany), Int. Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), and 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. He is hon. Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) and Ulam fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Selected bibliography

He has published over 600 scientific papers and 3 books.

Awards
  • Fellow of Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Sciences), 1994
  • Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal in mineralogy, 1994
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, 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 Ising prize for Physics, 2002
  • Gold medal of the University of Hamburg, 2002
  • Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques, 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
  • Honorary Professor, Jiao-Tong University, China, 2012
  • Werner Heisenberg medal 2017
  • honorary PhD (Dr. h.c.) University of Wuerzburg, 2019
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References
  1. Clare Hall elects New President http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008030305
  2. Professor Ekhard Salje awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Academic offices
Preceded by
Dame Gillian Beer		 President of Clare Hall, Cambridge
2001-2008		 Succeeded by
Sir Martin Harris
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