He was educated at University of Berlin and the mining school in Clausthal.
He attended school in the United States and Germany and was graduated from the Royal School of Mines at Clausthal, Germany, in 1874, taking the degree of mining engineer and metallurgist.
Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics, then sent itself to each entry in the target's email contacts file.
In 1999 he was awarded an honorary professorship by Clausthal University of Technology.
Sittard also has a Doctorate in Metallurgy and a Master’s Degree in Iron and Steelmaking from Clausthal University of Technology.
El-Masri was born and raised in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, by Syrian immigrants, whom his father studied geology at the Clausthal University of Technology.
In 1994 and 1995, he was consecutively invited as guest professor and doctoral supervisor of Clausthal University of Technology and of Tongji University.
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.
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In 2005 Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology), Mehdi Dastani (University Utrecht) and Peter Novák (Czech Technical University in Prague) have brought the contest into being and running.