Congratulations to Michael for submitting an awesome thesis on metal additive manufacturing against all odds (closed borders, Covid, electron powder bed fusion samples misbehaving…). In fact, he submitted his thesis two months ago but Sophie was at Imperial College at that time. We celebrated with American style BBQ platters, mac and cheese, etc. Also a […]

Congrats to our 2023 Honour’s and now PhD student David for award of the very prestigious University Medal for his academic excellence throughout his undergrad degree. More than that, both of our 2023 Honour’s students Ally and David have received multiple awards at the recent UNSW Materials undergrad prize-giving ceremony. This include two awards of […]

Prof Yunzhi Wang from Ohio State visited us on March 21 and gave an excellent seminar titled ‘Design of compositionally and structurally modulated materials for exceptional functional and mechanical properties’. It was impressive how his group uses computational tools to design new alloys with great properties, embracing segregation and other heterogeneities. We also enjoyed a nice […]

Dr Andrew Breen joined our group in early March as senior PostDoc and new Deputy group leader. He will also be part of our collaboration with an Australian superalloy manufacturer. He brings to our group great skills in materials characterisation with particular focus on atom probe microscopy. He also has experiences in metal additive manufacturing […]

This is Nima’s last week with us after 5 years and a bit before starting his Senior Lectureship at Imperial College London on Monday. Very proud of you, Nima, but also sad to see you leaving. At the same time, Qiuqin has joined the group to pursue a PhD on additive manufacturing grain boundary engineering, […]

To kick-off the new year after a well-deserved break, we had a brunch at Coogee courtyard. It was nice to catch-up with everyone and hear how they spent Christmas and NYE, either in Sydney or back home. Despite rather heavy gusts, we walked all the way to Bondi as planned. On the bright side, it […]

Congratulations to freshly graduated Drs. Moyle and Schulz. Notably, Dr. Moyle was Nima’s first joint completion from day one to graduation of a PhD. Bernd was in fact a very early group member, initially as an exchange student in 2016. We celebrated with family and friends in front of the auditorium where Sophie was suffering […]

We celebrated the end of another very successful year at the Holey Moley Alexandria miniature golf course followed by a yummy (health) lunch of pizzas and chips… Thanks Vitor for organising – all photos and videos look really fun. Michael H was clearly the best golfer although our new coursework student Singgih was not bad […]

Congratulations to our recent PhD alumni Maxwell and Vitor for both being awarded the ‘Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses’. This means that in each case both PhD assessors ranked their PhD theses amongst the top 10% of all PhD theses they ever examined. This is a great testimony to their outstanding PhD research and […]

Huge congratulations to Nima who has accepted a Senior Lecturership offer (tenure track) in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Nima will start building up his independent physical metallurgy research program with interests in additive manufacturing and interface engineering in early 2024. Nima was awarded his PhD at Deakin University (Australia) in 2017 where […]