Dierk Raabe studied music, metallurgy and metal physics (summa cum laude) at RWTH Aachen (Germany). After his doctorate 1992 (summa cum laude) and habilitation 1997 at RWTH Aachen he received a Heisenberg fellowship and worked at Carnegie Mellon University and at the High Magnetic Field Lab in Tallahassee. He joined Max Planck Society as a director in Düsseldorf at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (now: Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials) in 1999. His main research interest is Sustainable Metallurgy, i.e. to make industrial production, use and recycling of materials more sustainable, focusing on basic research with high leverage for CO2 emission mitigation and lower energy consumption. His specific interests are in sustainable metals (specifically ‘green’ steel, Nickel, Aluminium, Titanium etc.), recycling-oriented material design, metal physics, interfaces, phase transformation, Atom Probe Tomography, materials theory, hydrogen, sustainable manufacturing, and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Materials Science. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award (Highest German Science Awards) and two ERC Advanced Grants (Highest European Research Grant). He is professor at RWTH Aachen (Germany) and at KU Leuven (Belgium). He is a Doctor Honoris Causa at the Norwegian Technical University Trondheim. He is a member and Senator of the German National Science Academy Leopoldina and of the US National Academy of Engineering.