Wolfram Fürbeth

Wolfram Fürbeth got a Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Dortmund. In 1992 he went to the Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research to start work on corrosion in the group of Martin Stratmann being moved to Erlangen on the chair for Corrosion and Surface Technology in 1994. There he finished his Ph.D. in materials sciences in 1997. In the same year he joined DECHEMA as a research scientist being appointed in 2005 as head of the corrosion research group at DECHEMA Research Institute. In 2012 he finished his habilitation in materials technology at RWTH Aachen Technical University where he is giving lectures on corrosion and corrosion protection. Finally RWTH appointed him as Adjunct Professor in 2018. Current research interests are in new coating systems as well as corrosion of new materials or in new technologies. Since March 2017 he is a member of the Institute Directorate of DECHEMA Research Institute. In the scientific community Wolfram Fürbeth serves since 2017 as head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Corrosion Society. In the EFC he is serving as chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee since 2017 and as chairman of Working Party Coatings since 2012. He has been awarded with the Honorary Fellow Award of the European Federation of Corrosion in August 2023.
Supervisors: Martin Stratmann and Michael Schütze
Phone: +49697564398
Address: DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut
Theodor-Heuss-Allee 25
60486 Frankfurt am Main
Germany