Team > Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Natalia Dubrovinskaia

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Chair of Crystallography

Professional Background

Since 2011	Full Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2011 - 2016	Heisenberg Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2007 - 2011	Staff scientist (Akad. Rätin), University of Heidelberg, Germany
2001 - 2006	Senior research fellow, University of Bayreuth, Germany
1996 - 2001	Senior research fellow, Uppsala University, Sweden
1995 - 1996	Post doctoral researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden
1989 - 1995	Docent, High School, Moscow
1983 - 1989	Research associate, Research Inst., Ministry of Geology USSR, Moscow

Education

2008	Umhabilitation, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2007	Habilitation in crystallography, University of Bayreuth, Germany
1989	PhD in crystallography and crystal physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (USSR)
1983	MSc in geochemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University (USSR)

Awards

2019 - 2020	Guest Professor position for Advanced Functional Materials at the Theoretical Physics Division, the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Sweden
2019	Visiting Professor Fellow at the Laboratory Géosciences Environnment Toulouse, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, France
2017	Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2016 -	Elected Member of the Commission on High Pressure of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
2015 - 2018	Elected Secretary of the European High Pressure Research Group Committee
2014	Doctor honoris causa (Dr.h.c.) Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
2011 - 2016	Heisenberg Professor for Material Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions in the Excellence Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2011 - 2014	Elected Member of the European High Pressure Research Group Committee
2006	Named Research Leader in materials progress within „2006 Scientific American 50“
2005	Visiting Professor Fellow, Institut Galilée, Université Paris, France
1989	Award from the Ministry of Geology of the USSR for invention

Other Responsibilities

2019	Member of the Ewald Prize 2020 Selection Committee of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
2019	Member of the Review panel for evaluation of the SFB trans-regional proposal (SFB/Transregio TRR 254) "Ammonothermal synthesis of functional nitrides" for the DFG Group "Chemistry and Engineering 2"
2018	Member of the Review Board for evaluation of the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin, Germany
2018	Invited Convener of the sub theme Un-conventional Syntheses of Inorganic Solids at the 7th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Liverpool, UK
2017	Member of the review panel for the call in Natural and Engineering Sciences 2017 of the Swedish Research Council (VR), Sweden
Since 2016	Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, within the field of Chemical Physics
2016	Organizer and Chair of the 54th EHPRG International Meeting of High Pressure Science and Technology, Bayreuth, Germany
2016	Guest Editor for a special issue "Advances in High Pressure Science and Technology" of the High Pressure Research Int. Journal
2016 - 2018	Member of the Beam Time Allocation Panel C05 (ID06LVP, ID15B, ID18, ID27, ID28, BM01) for the European Synchrotron Radiation Facilities, ESRF, Grenoble, France
2013 - 2016	Peer Review Panel Member for the Diamond Light Source, UK
2014	Speaker of the Organizing Committee for Implementation of the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) at the University of Bayreuth
2014	Member of International Advisory Committee for the 52th European High Pressure Research Group International Meeting, Lyon, France
2012 - 2014	Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry
2011	Guest Editor for a special issue of the Int. journal Materials
Since 2006	Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), European Science Foundation (ESF), National Science Foundation (NSF), Research Council of Lithuania, Danish Council for Independent Research (DCIR), State Nat. Sci. Award Comm. of People Republic of China (SNSAC of PRC), the French National Research Agency (ANR), Swedish Research Council (VR)
Since 2006	Member of the American Physical Society (APS), German Physical Society (DPG), German Crystallographic Society (DGK), European Crystallographic Association (ECA)
2006	Guest Editor for a special issue of the High Pressure Research Int. Journal
2005	Organizer of the ESF Exploratory Workshop on Novel Superhard Materials

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Chair of Crystallography

• High-pressure and high-temperature crystallography
• High-pressure synthesis of novel inorganic materials including nanocrystalline materials with advanced mechanical properties
• Superhard materials
• Crystal physics and crystal chemistry, properties of matter in nanocrystalline state, thermoelastic and transport properties of solids
• Development of methods of high and ultra-high pressure generation using large-volume press (LVP) and diamond anvil cell (DAC) techniques
• Application of the synchrotron radiation and neutron diffraction in materials science and solid-state physics and chemistry

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Chair of Crystallography

Publications

Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Chair of Crystallography

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Natalia Dubrovinskaia
Group Leader Materials Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions

University of Bayreuth
Laboratory of Crystallography
​95440 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0) 921 / 55-3880
E-mail: natalia.dubrovinskaia@uni-bayreuth.de