Eduard Arzt joined the faculty in 2023 after leading the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany. Previously, he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart (1990-2007). Following a PhD in physics from the University of Vienna, Austria, he held various visiting positions at Cambridge University, Stanford University, and M.I.T. 

His research areas range from high-performance metals and microelectronic components to bioinspired micropatterned and robotics materials. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, Leopoldina German Academy of Sciences, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Arzt is Editor-in-Chief of the review journal Progress in Materials Science and co-founder of a deep tech start-up in automated handling.