Christoph Beckermann, Ph.D.
University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Solidification Laboratory
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
The University of Iowa
2402 Seamans Center
Iowa City, IA 52242
U.S.A.

Tel: 319/335-5681
Fax: 319/335-5669

Education

• Grundschule Hellern (Elementary School), Osnabrueck, Germany, 1965 to 1969
• Gymnasium Carolinum (High School), Osnabrueck, Germany, 1969 to 1978 (Abitur, 1978)
• Military Service, Germany, 1978 to 1979 (I guess, this was no education...)
• University of Hannover (Maschinenbau), Germany, 1979 to 1982 (Vordiplom, 1981)
• Purdue University (Mechanical Engineering), USA, 1982 to 1987 (M.S.M.E., 1984; Ph.D., 1987)

Positions

• University of Iowa, USA, 1987 to present
  • Assistant Professor, 1987
  • Associate Professor, 1992
  • Professor, 1996
  • Distinguished Professor, 2000

Memberships, Awards, Honors, etc.

• Professional Societies: ASME (Fellow), TMS, ASM, ASEE, AIAA, AFS
• Fulbright Grant, 1982
• National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, 1989 to 1994
• M.A.Grossmann Young Author Award for Best Paper in Metallurgical Transactions by authors under 40 years of age, 1995
• Board of Review, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
• Associate Editor, ASME J. Heat Transfer, 1998 to 2001
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Cast Metals Research
• Executive Editorial Board, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
• Co-Chair, Modeling of Casting, Welding, and Advanced Solidification Processes VIII conference, 1998
• others...

Research Interests

• Solidification Science
• Metal Casting
• Thermal and Fluid Sciences

Publications

• About 100 refereed journal papers, 90 conference papers, 6 co-edited books, other
• For a list of publications, click here
• As of April 2007, the papers have been cited about 2,200 times in the literature

Some of my favorite sites:

• Snow Crystal Gallery from Caltech
• My sister: Bernadette Makowka
• My brother: Bernd Beckermann
• My sister: Ursula Beiersdorf
• My parents: Paul Beckermann
• Iowa City (official site)
• Iowa City (another)
• Downtown Iowa City
• Iowa City/Coralville Convention and Visitors Bureau
• My Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University

...sailing on the Baltic Sea in 2004.

...skiing in Colorado in 2005.

...playing the Alphorn in Switzerland in 2006.

...on the cover of Iowa Engineer in 2007.