Cindy PhD thesis submission Cantonese dinner
We are very proud of our superstar PhD student Cindy who has submitted an outstanding PhD thesis in record time (little bit less than three years in). We celebrated with a Cantonese dinner at a restaurant with food from her hometown. Cindy is off to an amazing trip to China and Japan before joining us […]
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End of year lawn bowls
We concluded a busy and successful year by playing lawn bawls in Randwick. Michal L was killing it and Vitor did well too. Not sure about the others (saw someone making ball hope like a bunny)… We enjoyed lots of pub food and drinks after (hopefully) not getting sunburnt. Have a nice break everyone and […]
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Congrats Michael H on receiving the Dean’s award for outstanding PhD theses
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 […]
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CAMS 24 in Adelaide and congrats Ally on your poster award
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 […]
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Congrats to our Honour’s student Stella (Materials Australia undergraduate poster comp)
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!
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Farewell Michael Haines
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 […]
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Nana thesis submission dinner and celebrations
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 […]
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Congrats Vitor on your Lectureship
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 […]
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Thesis submission American dinner Michael H
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 […]
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