Three scientists from the IAM were awarded prizes at the DGM Day 2024: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoffmann received the "Honorary Membership of the German Society for Materials Science", Dr. Alexander Kauffmann the Masing Memorial Prize and Dr. Julia Rau the DGM Young Scientist Award.
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Dr. Philipp Röse (KIT junior research group leader, IAM-ET) was awarded the Hanns-Hofmann-Prize 2024 of the DECHEMA/VDI Division of Chemical Reaction Engineering for his work on the micro- and macrokinetic analysis of electrochemical syntheses. The award ceremony took place during the annual conference Reaction Engineering and Electrochemical Processes 2024 on May, 6 in Würzburg.
Anastasia August (IAM-MMS) once again impresses with two consecutive victories at science slams. On April 12, she secured first place in Friedrichshafen with an outstanding 197 out of 200 points and in Weingarten (Ravensburg) on April 13, she also prevailed against strong competition with 195 out of 200 points.
The IAM-AWP organized the international CALPHAD conference, which took place in Mannheim on 26-31 May 2024 with around 220 participants. The conference offers scientists and students interested in the thermodynamics of materials the opportunity to meet, present and discuss their work.
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On April 1, 2024, Xufei Fang started his ERC Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) at the IAM-MMI.
His project MECERDIS aims to fundamentally understand the mechanisms of dislocations in ceramics and help tailor new functional ceramic materials.
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The start-up Litona, founded at KIT (IAM-ESS), wants to produce the energy storage material "Prussian white" for the production of sodium-ion batteries on an industrial scale and thus support the European production of next-generation batteries.
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On 22.02.2024, the SWR captured impressions of the work on hot cells and the glove boxes in the fusion material laboratory together with Dr. Klaus Hesch (FUSION program spokesman) and Prof. Dr. Chr. Kirchlechner.
Fusion research in the state was to form the framework for a report on the SWR Aktuell Baden-Württemberg program on the Bundestag debate on the promotion of fusion research the following day.
Link to the report at ARD-Mediathek (German only)
Petra Olschowski, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg, visited the IAM-MMI's Fusion Materials Laboratory on February 13, 2024 together with Dr. Ronny Feuer (Head of the Department for Mobility, Energy, Aerospace, Industry 4.0) and Alexander Salomon, Member of the Karlsruhe State Parliament.
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