Senior Prof. Dr. Klaus Georg Nickel

The main research focus is materials science in the field of advanced ceramics, composites and more recently, traditional ceramics of archaeological interest. The research covers processing, characterisation and evaluation of ceramics (from silicates and oxides like alumina and zirconia to carbon, carbides, nitrides or borides). Particular expertise exists in the chemical property evaluation (oxidation and corrosion). Other research goals are phase relations, mechanical properties, biomimetics of biomaterials.

Currently: Senior Professor in Applied Mineralogy, Departent of Geosciences, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

1992-2021 Professor in Applied Mineralogy, ibid

1986-1992 Senior researcher Max-Planck-Institute for metals research (Stuttgart, F.R.G.), Powdermetallurgical Lab PML

1983-1986 Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, F.R.G.), Department Cosmochemistry,

1983 Dissertation (Ph.D.) at the Faculty for Geosciences at the University of Tasmania, Hobart

1979 Dipl.Geol., Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz (Dipl.-Geol.)

• Materialwissenschaften für Geowissenschaftler (6 SWS)
• Chemie für Geowissenschaftler II-2, Phasendiagramme (3 SWS)
• Intorduction to Archaeometry, 1 SWS
• Archaeometry & Palaeogenetics:
  Ceramics, 1 SWS
• Materials Science and Archaeological Ceramics: Manufacturing and Material Properties of Ancient and Modern Ceramics, 5 SWS

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Namen, A., Iovita, R., Nickel, K.G., Varis, A., Taimagambetov, Z. & Schmidt, P. (2022): Mechanical properties of lithic raw materials from Kazakhstan: comparing chert, shale, and porphyry.- PlosOne, 17 (4): e0265640 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265640

Schmidt, P., Blessing, M.A. & Nickel, K.G. (2021): On the performance of birch tar made with different techniques.- Heritage Science 9, 140, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00621-1

Klang, K. & Nickel, K.G. (2021): The plant-like structure of lance sea urchin spines as biomimetic concept generator for freeze-casted structural graded ceramics.- Biomimetics 2021 (6): 36, https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics6020036

Wang, E., Chen, Y., Fang, Z., Chen, J., Xu, E., Chou, K.-C., Nickel, K.G. & Hou, X. (2021): Progress in cognition of gas-solid interface reaction for non-oxide ceramics at high temperature.- Critical reviews in solid state and materials science, 46 (3): 218-250 , https://doi.org/10.1080/10408436.2020.1713047

Schmidt, P., Blessing, M., Rageot, M., Iovita, R., Pfleging, J., Nickel, K.G., Rrighetti, L. & Tennie, C. (2019): Birch tar production does not prove Neanderthal behavioral complexity.- Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America (PNAS), 116 (36): 17707-17711, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911137116

Schmidt, P., Buck, G., Berthold, C., Lauer, C. & Nickel, K.G. (2019): The mechanical properties of heat-treated rocks: a comparison between chert and silcrete.- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, (6): 2489–2506, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0710-y

Stempfle, S., Linstädter, J., Mikdad, A., Nickel, K.G. & Schmidt, P. (2018): Early Neolithic pottery of Ifri n’Etsedda, NE-Morocco – raw materials and fabrication techniques.-  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 19: 200-212, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.02.042

Schmidt, P., Lauer, C., Buck, G., Miller, C.E. & Nickel, K.G. (2017): Detailed near-infrared study of the ‘water’-related transformations in silcrete upon heat treatment.- Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 44: 21-31 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00269-016-0833-6

Knippers, J., Nickel, K.G. & Speck, T. (2016): Biomimetic Research for Architecture and Building Construction.- Biologically Inspired Systems 9 (S. Gorb, Ed), Springer, 443 pp. ISBN ebook 978-3-319-46374-2, hardcover ISBN 978-3-319-46374-8,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46374-2

Delagnes, A., Schmidt, P., Douze, K., Bellot-Gurlet, L., Wurz, S., Conard, N.J.,  Miller, C.E., Nickel, K.G., Van Niekerk, K.L. & Henshilwood, C.S. (2016): Early evidence for the extensive heat treatment of silcrete in the Howiesons Poort at Klipdrift Shelter (layer PBD, 65 ka), South Africa.- PlosOne 11 (10) e0163874, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163874