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
	Member 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
	Spokesman of the Scientific Board of DLR Cologne

Selection of recent publications:

• J. Horbach, S. K. Das, A. Griesche, G. Frohberg, M.-P. Macht, and A. Meyer: Selfdiffusion and interdiffusion in Al₈₀Ni₂₀ Melts: Simulation and Experiment. Phys. Rev. B 75, 174304 (2007).
• A. Meyer, A. Stüber, D. Holland-Moritz, O. Heinen, and T. Unruh: Determination of self-diffusion coefficients by quasielastic neutron scattering measurements of levitated Ni droplets. Phys. Rev. B 77, 092201 (2008).
• Th. Voigtmann, A. Meyer, D. Holland-Moritz, S. Stüber, T. Hansen, and T. Unruh: Atomic Diffusion Mechanisms in a Binary Metallic Melt. EPL 82, 66001 (2008).
• A. I. Pommrich, A. Meyer, D. Holland-Moritz, and T. Unruh: Nickel self-diffusion in silicon-rich Si-Ni melts. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 241922 (2008).
• J. Brillo, S. Mavila Chathoth, M. M. Koza, and A. Meyer: Liquid Al₈₀Cu₂₀: Atomic Diffusion and Viscosity. Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 121905 (2008).
• A. Meyer, F. Kargl, and J. Horbach: A Microscopic View of Mass Transport in Silicate Melts by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, in: Neutron Applications in Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, edited by L. Liang, R. Rinaldi, and H. Schober (Springer, Berlin, 2008).