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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Boller
Christian Boller studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt/Germany and received an engineering doctoral degree in the field of material mechanics and fatigue life evaluation from the same institution in 1987. Having been active in the field of materials technology at Battelle-Europe in Frankfurt/Germany for a few years, he moved into the aircraft development division of MBB Military Aircraft (today Airbus) in 1990, where he became the chief engineer aerostructures in 1998. In 2003 he was appointed the chair of ‘Smart Structural Design’ at the University of Sheffield/UK. From 2008 until 2020 he was director of Fraunhofer IZFP. Since 2008 he holds the chair for Non-Destructive Testing and Quality Assurance (LZfPQ) at Saarland University. He is also the director of the NDT master course programme at Dresden International University (DIU) since 2013. In 2014 he was appointed a visiting professorship at the School of Aeronautics of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in Nanjing/China. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 publications including ‘Materials Data for Cyclic Loading’ (1987) and ‘Encyclopaedia on Structural Health Monitoring’ (2008) both a 5-volume compendium each. He is also one of the central organizers of the ‘European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring’ and the ‘Symposium on NDT in Aerospace’.
Universität des Saarlandes, Lehrstuhl für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung and Qualitätssicherung, Campus Dudweiler, Am Markt Zeile 4, 66125 Saarbrücken, Tel. 0681 302 64100, Fax 0681 302 4859, E-Mail c.boller@mx.uni-saarland.de