Our PhD and PostDoc alumnus Michael has been awarded the Dean’s award for outstanding PhD theses. This award is given to PhD graduates who have completed their PhD in a timely manner, produced a thesis that requires only minimal corrections, received outstanding and/or excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, and in the opinion […]
Our group (including all PhD students and PostDocs) travelled to hot Adelaide in South Australia to participate in the Materials Australia CAMS 2024 meeting. We presented around 10 talk and 3 posters, and met with some of our alumni (Arnab, Bernd and Nima). Ally took home the 3rd poster prize on an excellent poster summarising […]
Congratulations to our Honour’s student Stella for securing the 2nd poster prize in the 2024 Materials Australia NSW undergraduate presentation competition. This event was hosted by Western Sydney University on November 28. Stella presented a poster on her Honour’s project on thermo-mechanical processing induced surface failure in Low Nb grade Alloy 718 billets. Well done!
Michael is leaving us to take up a PostDoc Fellowship at NIST Gaithersburg funded via the NRC Research Associateship Program. We are sad to see him leave Australia and our group, but wish him the best for his future endeavours closer to home and are proud his application was funded! We hope to stay in […]
Congratulations to Nana who submitted an excellent PhD thesis on computational and physical simulation techniques of additive manufacturing processes in September, while traveling in Europe. We celebrated this with a dinner a Time for Thai (sadly, the closest Ghanese restaurant seems to be really far away) and drinks at the Regent. Anyhow, this adds some […]
Our own former Scientia PhD student and then PostDoc Vitor has been successful in his application for a five year industry sponsored Lectureship in our school with tenure track! This is his first step towards building up an independent research program focused on materials for extreme environments. Congratulations and the best of luck, Vitor! Exciting […]
Congratulations to Michael for submitting an awesome thesis on metal additive manufacturing against all odds (closed borders, Covid, electron powder bed fusion samples misbehaving…). In fact, he submitted his thesis two months ago but Sophie was at Imperial College at that time. We celebrated with American style BBQ platters, mac and cheese, etc. Also a […]
Congrats to our 2023 Honour’s and now PhD student David for award of the very prestigious University Medal for his academic excellence throughout his undergrad degree. More than that, both of our 2023 Honour’s students Ally and David have received multiple awards at the recent UNSW Materials undergrad prize-giving ceremony. This include two awards of […]
Prof Yunzhi Wang from Ohio State visited us on March 21 and gave an excellent seminar titled ‘Design of compositionally and structurally modulated materials for exceptional functional and mechanical properties’. It was impressive how his group uses computational tools to design new alloys with great properties, embracing segregation and other heterogeneities. We also enjoyed a nice […]
Dr Andrew Breen joined our group in early March as senior PostDoc and new Deputy group leader. He will also be part of our collaboration with an Australian superalloy manufacturer. He brings to our group great skills in materials characterisation with particular focus on atom probe microscopy. He also has experiences in metal additive manufacturing […]
