Werdegang:
1983-1984 Musikhochschule Rheinland, Musik
1984-1990 RWTH Aachen, Metallkunde und Metallphysik, Diplom, summa cum laude
1990-1992 RWTH Aachen, Metallkunde und Metallphysik, Dr.-Ing., summa cum laude
1992-1997 RWTH Aachen, Metallkunde und Metallphysik, Habilitation
1992-1997 RWTH Aachen, Wissenschaftler und Gruppenleiter
1997-1999 Wissenschaftler im Department for Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA - und - Wissenschaftler am US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida USA

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Metal physics, metals, Metallurgy, Materials Science, Sustainability

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
Member and senator of German National Science Academy Leopoldina
Member US National Academy of Engineering
Member North-Rhine-Westfaelian Academy of Sciences
Member German Academy of Technical Sciences

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award, DFG
2022 & 2012 2 ERC Advanced Grants, ERC
2022 Acta Materialia Gold Medal
2022 Doctor Honoris Causa, Norwegian Technical University Trondheim
2021 Kelly Lecture, 100th anniversary year lecture of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
2019 Bauerman Lecture Award Imperial College, London
2019 TMS Light Metals Award (Aluminium Alloys)
2018 Seidman Lecture Award, Tel Aviv University
2014 Honorary Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
2011 DGM Award, Award of the German Society for Materials Science
2011 Weinberg Lecture Award, University of British Columbia
2008 Lee Hsun Lecture Award, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001 Materials Science and Technology Award, the Federation of European Materials Science Societies FEMS
1997 Masing Award, German Society for Materials Science DGM
1997 Heisenberg Scholarship, German Research Foundation DFG

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
D. Raabe, C.C. Tasan, E.A. Olivetti, Strategies for improving the sustainability of structural metals, Nature 575 (2019) 64
Raabe, D. The Materials Science behind Sustainable Metals and Alloys. Chem. Rev. 123, 2436–2608 (2023).
Raabe, D., Ponge, D., Uggowitzer, P., Roscher, M., Paolantonio, M., Liu, C., Antrekowitsch, H., Kozeschnik, E., Seidmann, D., Gault, B., De Geuser, F., Dechamps, A., Hutchinson, C., Liu, C., Li, Z., Prangnell, P., Robson, J., Shanthraj, P., Vakili, S., …, Pogatscher, S. (2022). Making sustainable aluminum by recycling scrap: The science of “dirty” alloys. Progress in Materials Science, 100947
Wei, S., Ma, Y. and Raabe, D. (2024) One step from oxides to sustainable bulk alloys, Nature 2024. 633, pp. 1–7.
Sun, B., Lu, W., Gault, B., Ding, R., Makineni, S. K., Wan, D., Wu, C.-H. H., Chen, H., Ponge, D., & Raabe, D. (2021). Chemical heterogeneity enhances hydrogen resistance in high-strength steels. Nature Materials, 20, 1629
Rao, Z. et al. Machine learning-enabled high-entropy alloy discovery. Science (80). 85, 78–85 (2022).
Zhao, H., Chakraborty, P., Ponge, D., Hickel, T., Sun, B., Wu, C.-H., Gault, B., & Raabe, D. (2022). Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in high-strength Al-alloys. Nature, 602, 437
Han, L., Maccari, F., Filho, I. R. S., Peter, N. J., Wei, Y., Baptiste, G., Gutfleisch, O., Li,
Z., & Raabe, D. (2022). A mechanically strong and ductile soft magnet with extremely low coercivity. Nature 608, 24
Jovičević-Klug, M., Souza Filho, I. R., Springer, H., Adam, C. & Raabe, D. Green steel from red mud through climate-neutral hydrogen plasma reduction. Nature 625, 703–709 (2024).
Wang, F.; Song, M.; Elkot, M. N.; Yao, N.; Sun, B.; Song, M.; Wang, Z.; Raabe, D. Shearing Brittle Intermetallics Enhances Cryogenic Strength and Ductility of Steels. Science (80). 2024, 1022 (May), 1017–1022