Current research activities:

• Microstructure formation in non-equilibrium solidification
• Demixing and growth of liquid metallic phases
• Experiments on demixing and solidification under micro-gravity conditions

Curriculum vitae:

	since2000	Researcher at the Institut of Materials Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center, Cologne
	1995-1999	Research Assistant at the Lehrstuhl Werkstoffwissenschaft, Fakultät Maschinenbau, and at Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
	1991-1994	Research Assistant at the Institut für Metallforschung, Universität Münster
	1985-1990	Research Assistant at the Abteilung für Metallphysik, Universität zu Köln
	1977-1984	Study of Physics, Universität zu Köln

Diploma, awards, functions:

	Diplom Physiker, Universität zu Köln, 1984
	Doktor der Naturwissenschaften, Universität zu Köln, 1990
	Grant of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 1996, Research Visit at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Selection of recent publications:

• T. Lierfeld, M. Kolbe, G. Eggeler, and D. M. Herlach: Interaction of small ceramic particles with a dendritic solidification front. Adv. Engn. Mater. 10, 547 (2008).
• Y. K. Zhang, J. Gao, D. Nagamatsu, T. Fukuda, H. Yasuda, M. Kolbe, and J. C. He: Reduced droplet coarsening in electromagnetically levitated and phase-separated Cu-Co alloys by imposition of a static magnetic field. Scr. Mater. 59, 1002 (2008).
• J. Z. Zhao, M. Kolbe, H. L. Li, J. R. Gao, and L. Ratke: Formation of the microstructure in a rapid solidified Cu-Co alloy. Metall. Mater. Trans. A 38, 1162 (2007).
• T. Lierfeld, M. Kolbe, J. Gegner, G. Eggeler, and D. M. Herlach: Einbau keramischer Dispersoide in Metalle mittels unterschiedlicher Techniken der Unterkühlung metallischer Schmelzen. Zeitschrift für Werkstoffe, Wärmebehandlung, Fertigung. 60, 64 (2005).
• M. Kamaraj, K. Serin, M. Kolbe, K. Neuking, and G. Eggeler: Shear creep deformation of the super alloy single crystal CMSX-4 at high temperatures and low stresses. Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik 34, 469 (2001).
• R. Schmechel, M. Kennedy, H. von Seggern, H. Winkler, M. Kolbe, R. A. Fischer, Li Xaomao, A. Benker, M. Winterer, and H. Hahn: Luminescence properties of nanocrystalline Y₂O₃:Eu³⁺ in different host materials. J. Appl. Phys. 89, 1679 (2001).
• M. Kolbe: The high temperature decrease of the critical resolved shear stress in nickel-base superalloys. Mater. Sci. Engn. A 319-321, 383 (2001).