Background
Yuri Estrin was born and educated in the former Soviet Union, where he completed his university studies in Physics and Materials Engineering in Moscow with a high distinction.
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He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from that institution in 1975.
Career
In 1977, he briefly visited Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. In Hamburg, at the newly established University of Technology (TUHH), he received his habilitation and became professor of physical metallurgy. Estrin and his family migrated to Western Australia in 1992, where he became professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Western Australia.
Since then, Estrin has held the chair in Physical Metallurgy at Clausthal University of Technology in Germany and joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Monash University in Melbourne, where he is currently employed as Professor and Director of the Centre for Advanced Hybrid Materials.
Estrin is also an adjunct professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (of Korea) and Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008) and was elected fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2013).
Estrin is the author of more than 450 publications focussing on nanomaterials including nanomechanics, light alloys, alloy design, thin films, hybrid materials and multimaterials as well as design of novel materials based on geometry principles. Estrin"s daughter, Doctor Masha Niv, is an academic working in the area of bioinformatics.
Achievements
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Yuri Estrin has received recognitions for his scientific achievements, including a Humboldt Award (1999), a Staudinger-Durrer Lecture at the Swiss Federal University of Technology (2011), and a World-Class University professorship at Seoul National University (2009-2013). In 2013, he won a grant of the Russian government under the so-called ‘megagrant’ scheme to establish research activities in hybrid nanostructured materials at Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.
