Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon

After his engineering degree and PhD in France and a research stay at the University of Washington (USA), Olivier Guillon established an Emmy Noether Group funded by the DFG at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 2014 he has been director at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Materials synthesis and processing (Forschungszentrum Jülich) as well as professor at the RWTH University Aachen. His interests encompass thermal barrier coatings and high-temperature ceramics, solid-state batteries, solid oxide fuel/electrolytic cells, gas separation membranes, and sintering. His achievements have been recognized at an international level (DGM-Masing Prize, FEMS Materials Science and Technology Prize, R.L. Coble Award of the American Ceramic Society).