On September 23rd, Alexandra Wahn successfully defended her dissertation “Partikelbasierte Methoden für die Berechnung von effektiven Transporteigenschaften und Mechanik in granularen Mehrphasen-Elektroden”, written as a part of the DFG Research Training Group GRK 2218 “SiMET-Simulation of mechano-electro-thermal processes in lithium-ion batteries”. Congratulations!
On June 13th, Eloho Okotete successfully defended her dissertation "Stable crack growth as a strategy to circumvent FIB artefacts in small scale fracture testing". Her work focused on measuring the fracture toughness and interface toughness of materials at the micrometer and submicrometer scale.
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Markus Short successfully completed his doctoral thesis “Experimental and Theoretical Developments on Accurately Measuring and Modeling Grain Boundary Diffusion in Solids” with the defense on April 11th. Congratulations!
On April 19th, Luigi Spatafora successfully defended his dissertation "Entwicklung eines Metall-Keramik-Verbundes für thermo-mechanisch hochbelastbare Sichtfenster", a project of the Institute for Applied Informatics (IAI), which was co-supervised by the IAM-MMI in materials science. Congratulations!
Xufei Fang started his ERC Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) at IAM-MMI on April 01st, 2024.
His project MECERDIS (funding period 2023.04 to 2028.03) aims to fundamentally understand the mechanisms of dislocations in ceramics and help tailor new functional ceramic materials.
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In February, SWR filmed short interviews with Dr. Klaus Hesch (spokesperson FUSION program) and Prof. Dr. Chr. Kirchlechner in the Fusion Materials Laboratory and captured a few impressions of the work on hot cells and the glove boxes.
Fusion research in the state was to provide a framework for a report on the SWR Aktuell Baden-Württemberg program about the Bundestag debate on funding for fusion research on February 23rd.
The program is available in the ARD media library.
Link to 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 13th, 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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