Yuri Estrin

Who is Yuri Estrin?

Yuri Estrin, also written "Juri Estrin" is an authority on materials science and engineering, particularly in the areas of physical metallurgy, materials modelling, and development of new materials.

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.

He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and received his PhD degree from that institution in 1975.

In 1977, he briefly visited Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. After bureaucratic obstacles in leaving the Soviet Union in the Leonid Brezhnev years, Estrin migrated to Germany and ultimately moved to Hamburg in 1981 with his wife, Karin Estrin.

In Hamburg, at the newly established University of Technology, he received his habilitation and became professor of physical metallurgy. His son Daniel Estrin, was also born in Hamburg.

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.