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From March 19-23, 2023, the TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition was held in San Diego, California. Numerous participants from science and industry from metals, materials and minerals fields met for a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary exchange. The Institute I was represented with a total of nine co...

Mr. Nicklas Volz successfully defended his dissertation titled "Microstructural, chemical and thermomechanical factors influencing the deformation mechanisms and mechanical properties of single crystal cobalt-based superalloys" on 03.03.23. In addition to family, friends and SFB partners, several ge...

During his PhD, Mr. Benedikt Diepold has been working on the topic "Material scientific characterization of laser melted alloys for the use in future rocket engines". He successfully completed the doctorate with the defense on 31.01.2023. Meanwhile, Mr. Diepold has been working at MTU Aero Engines i...

The presentation of the current bachelor thesis topics of our Institute took place on 03.02.2023 at Technikum 2 in Fürth, Dr. Mack-Str. 77. The topics can are presented the following StudOn group: https://www.studon.fau.de/studon/goto.php?target=crs_831455 Individual topics can also be offered in...

Jan Philipp Liebig was a PhD student at the Institute I until July 2018. On 28.10.22 he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic "Grain boundary mediated plasticity in low dimensional metal structures". Since 2018, Mr. Liebig is working in research and development of hard coatings at Walt...

From 12-14.10.22 the 48th Retreat Symposium of the Institute I took place in the Sattelbogener Hof in the beautiful Oberpfalz. The annual symposium has the character of an international conference due to the high-class English-language presentations given by PhD students and external guests. In part...

From 02-07.10.22 the conference ECI - Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development VIII took place in Split. The Institute I was represented by Anna Krapf, Hendrik Holz, Stefan Zeiler and Benoit Merle. We are happy to congratulate Anna Krapf and Hendrik Holz for the poster awards! An...

Dear alumni and friends of the Institute I, I would like to cordially invite you to our 12th alumni meeting and materials colloquium of the Institute I on Friday, 03 June 2022. We are looking forward to exciting scientific lectures by alumni and current members of the Institute. At the same time,...

Mr. Philipp Heckl successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 17.03.22 on the topic of "Local material models and calculation strategies for the operational strength simulation of graded materials". Mr. Heckl is now working at Siemens Healthineers in the area of process development for electronics ...

Martin Weiser received two internal grants to facilitate the preparation of a large-scale research proposal. The money from the EAM Starting Grant and the ETI-funding will help to establish a dedicated research environment for the investigation of the so-called dual-atmosphere effect. The effect des...