On May 16 we had our first half-day group strategy retreat in Manly. This was great initiative mostly driven by Andrew with lots of help from David Pham – Thank You! Following an early ferry ride (surprisingly all made it on time), we had a number of talks and breakout sessions on equipment needs, collaborations, […]

Congratulations to Ming for submitting his excellent thesis on grain boundary engineering in superalloys and stainless steels via additive manufacturing. We celebrated his achievements at a Chinese restaurant with spicy food typical to the area where he grew up. Some not so spicy options were on offer too. Sadly, Sophie was down with a bad […]

Nana celebrated his PhD graduation together with his best buddies from our group… Sophie was glad to see this as she had to celebrate with them in spirit due to an unfortunate clash with the TMS meeting in the US. Congratulations Nana, we are super proud of you of you. We are also super excited […]

We are very proud of our superstar PhD student Cindy who has submitted an outstanding PhD thesis in record time (little bit less than three years in). We celebrated with a Cantonese dinner at a restaurant with food from her hometown. Cindy is off to an amazing trip to China and Japan before joining us […]