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Professor Karl Schulte

Professor Karl Schulte is head of the Institute of Polymers & Composites of the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg. A research staff of 12 scientists plus three technicians form a group which has great experience in the area of characterisation, testing and modelling of polymer composites and the generation and characterisation of carbon nanotube (CNT) / carbon nanofiber (CNF) based polymer composites. He has a more than 20 years experience in polymer matrix composites research and published more than 200 papers in this field. He is at present the European Editor of the journal Composite Science and Technology.

Prof. Schulte was the co-ordinator of the scientific network "Carbon Nanotubes for Future Industrial Composites" CNT-Net (www.cnt-net.com - link will open in a new window) with 18 European members from both industry and academia, and is still involved in numerous national and international projects.

He received his Dr. degree from the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum and worked until 1992 with DLR, Institute of Materials Science, in Cologne and since than at TUHH, with sabbatical leaves at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA and University of Cambridge, U.K.

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