Martin Stratmann

Martin Stratmann (born 20 April 1954 in Essen, Germany) is a German electrochemist and materials scientist. He is one of the directors at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research) in Düsseldorf since 2000 and heads its department of Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering.

Martin Stratmann, 2018

Stratmann has been president of the Max Planck Society since June 2014 after having been its vice president from 2008 to 2014.[1]

Professional career

After finishing his Abitur (A-levels) in 1973 at the grammar school in Traben-Trarbach (Rhineland-Palatinate, south-west Germany), and after his military service, Stratmann studied chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum. Stratmann received his diploma about NMR-analysis of the diffusion of anions and cations in SrCl2 in 1979. He did his doctorate on the topic of electrochemical analysis of phase transitions in corrosion layers at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE) in 1982. Between 1983 and 1984 he continued his research at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (USA) as a scholarship holder of the Max Planck Society. After his return to the MPIE, he worked until 1987 as a scientific assistant in the group of corrosion science. In 1987 he became head of this group. In 1994 Stratmann was appointed to a professorship for corrosion and surface engineering as a successor of H. Kaesche at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg (Bavaria) and remained there till 1999. In 2000 Stratmann returned to the MPIE as a scientific member and director of the department "Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering".[2] Two years later he was chosen to be the chief-executive (rotationally until 2010).[3]

From 2006 until 2008, Stratmann chaired the chemical-physical-technical section of the Max Planck Society and was appointed vice president of the Max Planck Society in 2008. He is the manager of the Minerva Foundation, an affiliate of the Max Planck Society, since 2008.[4]

Research interests

The research interests of Martin Stratmann concentrate on electrochemistry and corrosion science.[5] He connects electrochemical, spectroscopic and interface analytical methods and was the first one who used the scanning Kelvin probe technique in corrosion science.[6] With this method he was able to show that electrochemical reaction analysis is possible even under ultrathin electrolytic films and non-conducting coatings. With the help of the Kelvin probe, Stratmann was able to explain the atmospheric corrosion of iron and iron based alloys, and the de-adhesion of polymer coatings of reactive metallic surfaces. With the insight that the formation of electrochemical elements and especially the reduction of molecular oxygen is the key factor to understand the stability of metal-polymer bonds, Stratmann and his team developed new interface-chemical concepts to increase the stability of these bonds which finally lead to self-healing processes of defect interfaces.[7] These concepts were also transferred into industrial applications.

Other activities

Recognition
  • 1979 Award of the Ruhr University Bochum for the best diploma thesis of this year
  • 1985 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for the research on the reactions of phase interfaces and solid state bodies during the growth of corrosion layers
  • 1990 Masing Award of the German Society for Material Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde) for the research on corrosion reactions under thin electrolyte films
  • 1995 DECHEMA Award of the Max Buchner Research Foundation
  • 2005 Willis Rodney Whitney Award of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE)
  • 2005 UR Evans Award of the British Institute of Corrosion
  • 2008 H. H. Uhlig Award of the Electrochemical Society

Stratmann is a fellow of the Electrochemical Society and member of Acatech (German Academy of Engineering Sciences) and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Together with Allan Bard, he is editor in chief of the comprehensive encyclopedia of electrochemistry.

References
  1. "Stratmann, Martin". www.mpg.de.
  2. Corrosion Protection of Steel
  3. "Department "Interface Chemistry and Surface Engineering" at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung". Archived from the original on February 7, 2012.
  4. "Max-Planck-Gesellschaft President Biography". 15 April 2019. Since 2008, he has also been the Scientific Director of the Minerva Foundation, which was established as a subsidiary of the Max Planck Society in the 1960s and is the flagship of German-Israeli scientific cooperation.
  5. "Electrochemistry: Rebirth of a science". edoc.mpg.de.
  6. Salgin, Bekir; Vogel, Dirk; Pontoni, Diego; Schröder, Heiko; Schönberger, Bernd; Stratmann, Martin; Reichert, Harald; Rohwerder, Michael (2012-01-01). "A scanning Kelvin probe for synchrotron investigations: the in situ detection of radiation-induced potential changes". Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 19 (1): 48–53. doi:10.1107/S0909049511047066. ISSN 0909-0495. PMID 22186643.
  7. Maege, Iris; Jaehne, Evelin; Henke, Axel; Hans-Juergen, P Adler; Bram, Christian; Jung, Christian; Stratmann, Martin (1998). "Self-assembling adhesion promoters for corrosion resistant metal polymer interfaces". Progress in Organic Coatings. 34 (1–4): 1–12. doi:10.1016/S0300-9440(98)00010-1.
  8. Board of Trustees Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  9. Scientific Advisory Board Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).
  10. Board of Trustees Center of Advanced European Studies and Research.
  11. Board of Trustees Archived 2018-04-20 at the Wayback Machine Deutscher Zukunftspreis.
  12. Board of Trustees Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study.
  13. Senate, as on 7 February 2019 Leibniz Association.
  14. Board of Trustees Robert Koch Foundation.
  15. Board Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.
  16. Board of Trustees Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by
Peter Gruss		 President of Max Planck Society
2014—		 Succeeded by
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