Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Schütze

Michael Schütze completed his Material Sciences studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1...Michael Schütze completed his Material Sciences studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1978. In the year thereafter, he worked as a Scientific Employee at DECHEMA. In 1983, Schütze obtained his doctorate at the Rhineland-Westphalian Technical University of Aachen. In 1991, he obtained his post-doctoral qualification at RWTH Aachen and became the Director of the High-Temperature Materials working group at the Karl Winnacker Institute of DECHEMA. Since 1996, he has been entrusted with the management of the institute. Professor Schütze was the Chief Executive Officer of the Society for Corrosion Protection (GfKORR) between 2001 and 2003 and the President of the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) from 2005 to 2008. Moreover, he was appointed as the President of the World Corrosion Organisation (WCO) from 2007 to 2010.