Congratulations to our Honour’s student Liam Stephenson for being awarded the second prize at the Materials Australia NSW branch undergrad thesis competition 2019! He competed against hand-picked students materials science & engineering students from all across NSW. His thesis is on variant selection in Ti alloys during additive manufacuring. Very well deserved!!

Dr. Christina Hofer visited our group and delivered a talk on ‘Design, Development and Characterisation of Advanced High Strength Steels’ to all our HDR students. She is currently a group leader at the chair of steel design at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. Old and new Austr(al)ian and international friends enjoyed drinks at the UNSW roundhouse.

Prof. Ernst Kozeschnik is the head of the institute of materials science and technology at TU Vienna (Austria). He is the lead developer MatCalc, a software package dedicated to thermo-kinetic modelling of alloys. He visited our group for a whole week and trained PosDocs and PhD students to use MatCalc for their research. (He too […]