Alfred Leipertz
Alfred Leipertz is a German physicist and engineer, emeritus chair professor of Engineering Thermodynamics and senior professor of Chemical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), and co-founder of the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT).
His research spans laser diagnostics (Raman/Rayleigh scattering, laser-induced fluorescence and incandescence), combustion science, dropwise condensation, and ionic-liquid thermophysics.
He also founded and led a spin-off company, ESYTEC Energie- und Systemtechnik GmbH, a detail worth flagging for COI review if the company or its principals commissioned or edited this article.
Notability & Coverage Analysis
With more than 16,500 citations and an h-index of 66 (per the article’s own citation to his Google Scholar profile), Leipertz shows the kind of broad scholarly impact WP:NPROF C1 looks for, assuming the figures can be independently corroborated on a citation database.
Fellowship in three major independent professional societies (IUPAC, Optica, The Combustion Institute) plus an honorary doctorate from the University of Maribor supports WP:NPROF C3 (highest-level elected fellow of an appropriate scholarly society/academy).
As with the rest of this batch, coverage is entirely institutional/primary — CV PDF, WorldCat book listings, and award-body pages — with no independent journalism. The honorary doctorate and multiple society fellowships are nonetheless a reasonably strong composite case.
Solutions
Existing Article Audit
Content
- The research-summary section is very technical and reads more like an annotated bibliography of citing papers than a narrative of Leipertz’s own findings — many footnotes are to other authors’ papers that merely mention a related topic.
- The ESYTEC company detail has no independent sourcing and should either be corroborated or trimmed.
Sources
- Good independent anchors exist (Optica, Combustion Institute, ASME, University of Maribor) but are outnumbered by primary CV citations and tangential academic papers.
- Several footnotes cite papers that do not directly discuss Leipertz’s work, a WP:OR / relevance concern worth reviewing line by line before publication.
Compliance
- Verifiability: largely met for awards; weaker for the company claim.
- NPOV: neutral in tone.
- No original research: some citation choices in the research-summary paragraphs should be checked to confirm they directly support the specific sentence, not just the general topic.
Improvement Plan
- Independently verify the >16,500-citation and h-index-66 figures against Scopus or Web of Science rather than Google Scholar alone.
- Source or remove the ESYTEC GmbH company claim.
- Audit each footnote in the ‘Research’ paragraphs to confirm it is about Leipertz’s specific contribution, not merely a paper on an adjacent topic.
- Lead any notability discussion with the Optica/Combustion Institute/ASME/Maribor sources.