Benutzer:HannaSys/Martin Rudolph

Martin Rudolph is currently working as Head of the Processing Department at the Helmholtz Institute for Resource Technology (HIF) of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Germany. He is also a lecturer for Interfacial Engineering at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg.

Early life and education

Born in March 1983 in Germany, the young Martin spends a quiet childhood in Saxony. In 2000, in the prime of his teenage years and his very long hair, he spends one year at the Greenfield Central High School in Indiana, USA. He comes back to Germany to complete his “Abitur” at the Martin-Luther Gymnasium in Frankenberg, which he obtains in 2002.

Scientific Career

From 2003 to 2008, Rudolph studies Process Engineering at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Eastern Germany and specializes in Particle technologies. In 2006, he does one internship at Elfusa Geral de Eletrofusao in Sao Joao da Boa Vista, Brazil, focusing on the processing of specialized ceramic powders. He comes back to Germany with a profound love for South America and a very shaky Portuguese. 2006 is a busy year for Rudolph as he also completes an internship at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG in Heidelberg, Germany on the adhesion of powders, discovering West Germany for the first time after the fall of the Berlin wall and only after visiting two other continents. He obtains his degree in Process Engineering after a diploma thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute for non-destructive evaluation in Dresden, titled “Synthesis of Aqueous Colloids of Detonation Synthesized Nanodiamant using Machanical Dispersing Methods”. But Rudolph, on his path to a Nobel prize, is not content with just a German equivalent of a Master of Science. He starts a PhD at the Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mineral Processing at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg under the supervision of Prof. Peuker. Financed by the DFG Project “Highly filled Polymer-Nanoparticle-Composites”, Rudolph successfully defends his PhD thesis in December 2012 with the highest distinction “summa cum laude”. Rudolph is hired by the newly founded Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology as the commissarial head of the processing department, specializing in froth flotation. His brilliance does not go unnoticed and he becomes the head of said department in his own right in 2016. In this position, Rudolph continues to travel the world from conference to conference, spreading the word on the importance of interfaces. From August to October 2017, he is a guest scientist at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Since 2020, he has become the leader of the “CrazyAboutInterfaces” movement under the stage name “sMartinterface”.

Awards

• Sächsisches Lebensrettungsehrenzeichen
• Rising Star with Minerals Engineeing Internatiol
• Science Communication Award of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf