Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Klaus Friedrich in Top 100 List of international Materials Scientists

The 2020 Stanford-Ranking List (https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2 ; see Table 6) (based on citations between 1996 to 2019) ranked Professor Klaus Friedrich of Leibniz- Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe (IVW) at Technical University of Kaiserslautern in an international comparison of leading scientists in materials on position 85. This ranking is mainly a result of highly cited publications. Friedrich has more than 28,540 citations based on 574 of his list of publications. This brought him at Google Scholar on an H-index of 91 (date December 10, 2020). During his time at IVW since 1990, he generated a total of 50 accepted research projects from German Research Foundation (DFG), supervised up to now 66 dissertations and acted as a host of more than 10 Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellows, 3 AvH award winners and 2 DFG mercator guest professors. Friedrich was Scientific -Technical Director for the area Materials Science at IVW until 2006. Since then he spent various research stays, e.g. in Australia, Switzerland and Saudi-Arabia. Professor Friedrich is still highly active at IVW, e.g. as a co-advisor of doctoral dissertations as well as in evaluation of research proposals. He also is ombudsperson for good scientific practice and member of some editorial boards, e.g. Composite Science and Technology (IF 7,094), Tribology international (IF 4,271) and Journal of Materials Science (IF 3,553). 11 of his edited books are internationally well recognized, whereby his recent book (together with Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Rolf Walter, IVW) is entitled „Structure and Properties of Additive Manufactured Polymer Components“ and appeared with Elsevier publ. in 2020.