Current research activities:

• Study of structure property relations, mechanisms of mass transport and solidification in metallic and oxidic melts
• Experiments under micro-gravity conditions
• Neutron scattering at high temperatures and pressures for the study of atomic dynamics and melt structures

Curriculum Vitae:

	since 2006	Director, Institute of Materials Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, and Full Professor, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr Universität Bochum
	2003-2006	University Professor and Head of the Institute of Experimental Physics E13, Technische Universität München
	1999-2003	Senior Scientist, Physics Department, Technische Universität München
	1997-1999	Post-doctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
	1995-1997	Doctoral dissertation research, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
	1988-1994	Study of Physics, Technische Universität München

Diploma, awards, functions:

	Diplom Physiker, Technische Universität München, 1994
	Doktor der Naturwissenschaften, Technische Universität München, 1997
	Habilitation in Experimental Physics, Technische Universität München, 2003
	Award of a Heisenberg fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG), 2004
	Head of the Board of Directors of the Microgravity User Support Center, MUSC
	Member of the Scientific Council of the Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble
	Member of the National Program Board on Research under Space Conditions
	DLR Confidant for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice

Selection of recent publications:

• J. Horbach, R. Rozas, T. Unruh, A. Meyer: Improvement of computer simulation models of liquid metals with quasielastic neutron scattering: A case study of liquid Titanium, Phys. Rev. B 80, 212203 (2009)
• A. Meyer: Self Diffusion in Liqiud Copper as seen by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering, Phys. Rev. B 81, 012102  (2010)  
• B. Zhang, A. Griesche, A. Meyer: Diffusion in Al-Cu melts studied by time-resolved X-ray radiography, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 035902 (2010)  
• S. Stüber, D. Holland-Moritz, T. Unruh, A. Meyer: Ni self-diffusion in refractory Al-Ni melts, Phys. Rev. B 81, 024204 (2010)
• T. Kordel, D. Holland-Moritz, F. Yang, J. Peters, T. Unruh, T. Hansen, A. Meyer: Neutron Scattering Experiments on Liquid Droplets using Electrostatic Levitation, Phys. Rev. B 83, 104205 (2011) 
• J. Brillo, A. I. Pommrich, A. Meyer: On the relation between self diffusion and viscosity in dense liquids: New experimental results from electrostatic levitation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 165902 (2011)