Professor Telle earns honorary membership of the German Ceramic Society
Professor Telle earns honorary membership of the German Ceramic Society
Professor Rainer Telle, holder of the Chair of Ceramics and Refractory Materials at the Institute of Mineral Metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University, is now an honorary member of the German Ceramic Society (DKG).
He is receiving this award "for his many services to ceramics and his commitment to the society." Telle has been a member of the society's presidium and board since 1994, and until 2007 he was in charge of scientific activities.
The DKG is the largest ceramic society in Europe. It was founded in 1919 as a ceramic professional association and technical-scientific association and is committed to the promotion of ceramics in technical, scientific and artistic terms. Honorary membership has been awarded only 24 times in the past 100 years.
Telle first studied mineralogy, crystal chemistry, crystal physics and geology-petrology-deposit science, and subsequently metallurgy and metal physics at the University of Stuttgart. He completed his doctorate on advanced ceramics at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. Until his appointment at RWTH in 1991, Telle worked at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, most recently as deputy director of the Powder Metallurgy Laboratory.
He has already received several awards and honors, for example he is an honorary professor at Anhui University of Technology in China and received the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Japan Materials Research Society.