Ekhard Salje

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Professor Ekhard Salje (Fellow of the Royal Society), born in 1946 in Hannover, Germany, is the Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University. Before coming to Cambridge in 1986, he was, since 1983, a Professor of Crystallography at the University of Hannover. He became the President of Clare Hall on 1st October 2001. Professor Salje's research is focused in the field of mineralogy and mineral physics using approaches that combine theoretical and experimental methods. In particular, he is concerned with the stability of minerals and the transformation processes that occur within them in response to changes in temperature and pressure. He is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences. As Programme Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) he was responsible for joint research in the field of Future Technologies. He is chairman of the Cambridge e-science Centre and chairman of the steering committee of the Cambridge Environmental Initiative (CEI) which advises on all environmental research in Cambridge. He is president of the British branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He received the following honors:1994 Fellow of Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Sciences), 1994 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal in mineralogy, 1996 Fellow of RSA, Institute of Physics, and Geological Society, 1996 Mombusho Professor (Japan), 1998 Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society, 2000 Humboldt Research Prize, 2001 Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, 2002 Ernst Ising prize for Physics, 2002 Gold medal of the University of Hamburg, 2004 Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques, 2006 Agricola medal for Applied Mineralogy, 2006 Cross of the Order of Merit, first class (Germany). He has published over 400 scientific papers and 2 books.