Engineering microstructures enjoyed a joint Christmas party with friends and collaborators from The University of Sydney. We had an Aussie BBQ on a nice sunny day in Ewen Park, and a good combination of soccer/footy/cricket activities!
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!!
Congratulations to Carina Ledermueller for submitting her PhD thesis! Great work and very well done! Carina’s PhD was on thermo-mechanical processing of HSLA steels, check out some of her papers on our publications page.
Prof. Chris Berndt, a distinguished professor at Swinburne University of Technology gave a talk on ‘Nanostructured Thermal Barrier Coatings: Challenges and Opportunities’ in our school. We enjoyed a special group meeting in the afternoon where our junior researcher had an opportunity to pitch their projects.
Congratulations to Felix Theska for submitting his PhD thesis! His thesis was on advanced characterisation of INC718. Great job, Felix, and looking forward to your new research endeavours with industry and aerospace alloys as our second postdoctoral researcher.
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 […]
