Email: M.Zaiser@ed.ac.uk Phone: +44 131 650 5671 Fax: +44 131 651 3470

Dr. Michael Zaiser Adjunct Associate Professor Reader in Materials (Associate Professor) Dipl. Phys 1991 Dr. rer. nat. 1994 Dr. habil. 2002 (University of Stuttgart) Home Institution: School of Engineering and Electronics Institute for Materials and Processes and Centre for Materials Science and Engineering The University of Edinburgh King's Buildings Sanderson Building Edinburgh EH9 3JL, United Kingdom

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Biography

Michael Zaiser, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, is a Reader (Associate Professor) at the School of Engineering and Electronics, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His main research areas of interest are statistical mechanics of plastic flow, continuum representation of discrete dislocation systems, and instabilities and nonlinear phenomena in deformation and failure (For more detail, see his home page.) He has published more than 100 scientific review, papers, and book chapters, organized and Chaired several International Conferences.

He visited the Department of Physics in July 2006 for a week and gave a lecture on his recent research at the joint seminar of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering Departments.