Meet Our Faculty — OVGU Professors & VGU Researchers in Materials Science

Meet the German and Vietnamese professors from OVGU Magdeburg, Fraunhofer IMWS, and TU Freiberg who deliver world-class instruction and research supervision in the MSI Materials Science program at VGU.

The MSI program draws on the expertise of faculty from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), the Vietnamese-German University (VGU), the Fraunhofer Institute (IMWS), and TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Students have the opportunity to contribute to research across 6 specialist Chairs at OVGU, alongside outstanding VGU researchers — covering the full breadth of Engineering Materials from solid-state physics and metallic materials to ceramics, polymer chemistry, and computational mechanics.

Our lecturers are more than instructors. They are active researchers who genuinely invest in student projects. Lecturers are known to support student research initiatives and, in a number of cases, have provided funding for student projects through their own research grants or institutional budgets. If you have a compelling idea and the drive to pursue it, the MSI program want to hear it.

MSI Program Leadership & VGU Core Faculty

Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh

Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh

Academic Coordinator

Senior Lecturer VGU

Dr. rer. nat. Duong Hieu Linh

Dr. rer. nat. Duong Hieu Linh

OVGU Partner Chairs & Faculty

Students have the opportunity to contribute to research across 6 different Chairs at OVGU.

Chair of Computational Mechanics

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Juhre

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Juhre

Program Director

Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (OVGU); Head of the Chair of Computational Mechanics

Marc Ulrich

Marc Ulrich

Program Coordinator

Research Assistant (Chair of Computational Mechanics)

Chair of Solid State Physics

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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Christen

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Jürgen Christen

Head of Chair of Solid State Physics

apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Frank Bertram

apl. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Frank Bertram

Chair of High Temperature Materials

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mania Krüger

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mania Krüger

Head of Chair of High Temperature Materials

Chair of Metallic Materials

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Halle

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Halle

Head of Chair of Metallic Materials

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Hütter

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Hütter

Chair of Non-Metallic Materials

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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Scheffler

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Scheffler

Head of Chair of Non-Metallic Materials

Dr. rer. nat. Ulf Betke

Dr. rer. nat. Ulf Betke

Chair of Engineering Mechanics

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h. c. mult. Holm Altenbach

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h. c. mult. Holm Altenbach

Former Head of Chair of Engineering Mechanics

Institute of Chemistry

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Prof. Dr. Franziska Scheffler

Prof. Dr. Franziska Scheffler

Technical & Laboratory Support

Mr. Le Dinh Phi

Mr. Le Dinh Phi

VGU

Lab Engineer of MSI