[1] Professor Salje's research is focused in the field of mineralogy and mineral physics using approaches that combine theoretical and experimental methods.
[2] This has been followed by him being elected Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques (France) in 2004 and awarded the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007.
He is the co-author of the report by the Royal Society on nuclear waste and was chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Institute for Environmental e-Sciences.
Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), and the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (UK).
Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) and Ulam fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.