Maxwell presented his poster titled ‘Microstructure Investigations of LPBF 17-4 Stainless Steel’ as a pre-recorded 3 min pitch during the HI-AM online conference on additive manufacturing. He managed to bring home the 3rd place in their Poster Presentation Competition. Well done Max (and Nima for Co-supervision). This is Max’ second presentation award during his PhD […]
After starting their theses remotely due to the global pandemic and closed borders, both Nana and Michael have now arrived in Sydney from South Korea and Tennessee, respectively. We managed to get border exemptions granted based on their skills and the importance of the AUSMURI project to the Australian economy. Both completed their mandatory two-week […]
After 3.75 years of hard work and during a global pandemic, Ryan has submitted an excellent thesis on the microstructure evolution during electron powder bed fusion of Ti-6Al-4V studied using 3D EBSD. Ryan has not only been able to provide new fundamental insights into 3D microstructure formation as a function of scanning strategies, he has […]
Congratulations to our final year PhD student Ryan Demott on accepting an offer for a PostDoc position at Sandia National Lab in New Mexico. Ryan is currently writing up his PhD thesis on 3D microstructures in electron beam powder bed fusion printed Ti-6Al-4V. He will embark on new research endeavours involving in-situ transmission electron microscopy […]
On a wet and rainy Monday (March 22), we enjoyed a group lunch at the UNSW Whitehouse followed by bowling at the Moore Park EQ Strike bowling place. This was another unlucky attempt to make up for our missed Christmas 2020 bushwalking and beach activity, again spoilt by the bad weather forecast. Carina and Arnab […]
Check out the new, completely redesigned UNSW School of Materials Science & Engineering School website: https://www.materials.unsw.edu.au Most importantly, our research is now grouped into four theme clusters & Sophie has been promoted to theme group leader of ‘Transport & Infrastructure’. The aims of these theme clusters are to promote collaboration within the school and to […]
The team enjoyed a massive Christmas/end of year feast at an Italian restaurant in Surry Hills on a hot and sunny summer day. This was a welcome chance to relax and reminisce on how well the team managed all challenges thrown at us during 2020. We also celebrated Nima’s promotion to Level B, which is […]
Maxwell and Nima recently visited our collaborator Dr Vladimir Luzin at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS), which forms part of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). This visit allowed them to develop a greater understanding of the materials characterisation techniques available at ACNS which may be applied to projects in our […]
We recently enjoyed a beautiful and somewhat exhausting bushwalk followed by lunch in the Royal National Park, as farewell to Ryan. He will spend the last couple of months of his PhD back in the US, where he will continue writing up lots of awesome papers on 3D EBSD of 3D printed Ti-6-4. Couple of […]
Earlier this year, both Carina and Felix have been awarded their PhDs. However, due to the global pandemic, UNSW graduation ceremonies are currently on hold. Therefore, we decided to invent our own Covid style graduation ceremony in Sophie’s backyard. Obviously, Sophie took the opportunity to give laudations for our graduands. These impromptu speeches were witnessed […]
