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Dr. Thomas Weißgärber
Advanced powder metallurgical techniques and additive manufacturing for innovative soft magnetic materialsProf. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weißgärber is head of the Dresden branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM and a member of the institute’s management. He has held the professorship of Powder Metallurgy at TU Dresden since 01.04.2022. His expertise lies in the areas of powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing. He has worked on various material groups such as metal matrix composites, dispersion-strengthened materials, high-temperature, and lightweight materials and has published more than 200 articles and been involved in more than 18 patent applications. In 2018, he was awarded the “Skaupy Award”, the highest honour in the German-speaking world in the field of powder metallurgy and 2022 he received the EPMA Fellowship award. |
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Prof. Soon Hyung Hong (KAIST, Korea) Progress and Prospect on Multifunctional Metal Matrix NanocompositesAcademic Background
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Prof. Soon Hyung Hong received Ph.D. on Material Science and Engineering of Northwestern University, USA in 1984. He has been worked for R&D as a professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology (KAIST) since 1986. Prof. Hong has been carried out innovative research and development as a global leading scientist in areas of nanomaterials and nanocomposites. He had founded and served as Director the KAIST Institute for NanoCentury (KINC) to lead advanced researches on nanoscience and nanotechnology at KAIST. |
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Prof. Tohru SEKINO (The University of Osaka, Japan) High and Low Temperature Sintering of Ceramics: Advanced Multi-task Functions and Innovative ProcessingAcademic Background
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– Design & development of ceramic-based nanocomposites and their eco-friendly fabrication processes. |
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Prof. Yukiko Ozaki (Joining and Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan) Materials Informatics Approach for Evaluating the Effects of Pores in Powder-Based Materials via 3D X-ray CT and Persistent HomologAcademic Background
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Prof. Yuntian Zhu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Materials Informatics Approach for Evaluating the Effects of Pores in Powder-Based Materials via 3D X-ray CT and Persistent HomologyAcademic Background
Professional Experience
Yuntian Zhu joined the City University of Hong Kong in 2020 as a Chair Professor, before which he was a Distinguished Professor in North Carolina State University, where he worked from 2007 to 2020. He worked as a postdoc, staff member and team leader in Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) until 2007 after obtaining his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. In recent years he has focused on the deformation mechanisms at dislocation level and mechanical behaviors of heterostructured materials and nano/ultrafine-grained materials. He is an experimentalist with a primary interest in fundamental aspects of materials research and also in designing materials with superior strength and ductility. He and his colleagues are pioneers of the emerging field of heterostructured materials. He recently received the Institute of Metals Lecture and Robert Franklin Mehl Award , ASM International Albert Sauveur Award, IUMRS Sômiya Award, TMS SMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, and TMS Leadership Award. He has been elected to the Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Inventors (US), as well as Fellows of five academic societies: TMS, MRS, APS, ASM, and AAAS. More information can be found in his personal website: http://www.hsm-lab.com/ |