Auteur: Michel Barsoum

Michel W. Barsoum is Distinguished and Grosvenor-Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, USA. His research group was the fi rst to fabricate and fully characterize the MAX phases, an important new class of machinable ternary carbides and nitrides on which he and his collaborators have published more than 200 papers. He is also the author of a textbook on the Fundamentals of Ceramics, the leading textbook in the field. Prof. Barsoum was awarded a Humboldt Max Planck Research Award in 2000 and spent one year at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2008 – 2009 he spent a sabbatical year at Los Alamos National Lab as the prestigious Wheatley Scholar. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the World Academy of Ceramics. In addition, Prof. Barsoum is visiting professor at Linkoping University in Sweden. With a h index of close to 50, his work has been highly and widely cited. He is on ISI »s most highly cited authors list. He is the author of the two entries on the MAX phases in the Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Engineering.