Jörg Läuger

Anton Paar

Physicist

Fellow, Elected 2019

Jörg Läuger is nominated as Society of Rheology Fellow 2019 for his continuous and outstanding contributions in the development of rheological measuring equipment in his role as lead scientist at Anton Paar. Jörg started out his career at the University of Freiburg in Germany working on rheo-scattering and continued in the area of rheooptics and interfacial rheology as a postdoc in Gerry Fuller’s lab at Stanford University. In 1996 Jörg joined Anton Paar and soon afterwards took responsibility for strategic product portfolio management and business development. As such he acts as the link between customer, sales, engineering and product development and during the following 13 years the rheological community saw a small player to world leader and experienced a seven times revenue increase. Becoming the Lead Scientist for Rheology in 2013 reflected the permanent growth of the product line and offered the possibility to focus mainly on the scientific part of the market. Various collaboration projects with external partners such as MIT, NIST, ILL Grenoble, BASF, Dr. Tillwich Gmbh, University Sheffield, FO.R.T.H. – University of Crete, KU Leuven, and ETH Zürich have led to outstanding new measuring devices and analytical methods. Examples are measuring setup for magneto- and electro-rheology, interfacial rheology, neutron and x-ray scattering combined with rheometry, tribology, or shear induced polarized light imaging technique. Jörg also focused on large deformation testing and made the use of Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) and conepartitioned- plate geometry available for commercial rheometer setups, and currently he is also pushing the development of orthogonal superposition for melts. In a brief summary, rheometry would not be where it is today without Jörg. During the time in academia and his professional carrier he co-authored about 30 very well cited papers in peer reviewed scientific journals such as Physical Review Letters, Langmuir, Macromelcules, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Rheology, and Rheologica Acta as well as about 160 other publications or contributions to international conferences have been published as author or co-author.