Philipp Kroeker is from TU Berlin where he is pursuing a Master’s program in Materials Science & Engineering. He will be our visitor for eight months, carrying out his Master’s thesis on the microstructure-corrosion properties of additively manufactured duplex stainless steel. We took this opportunity to have after work drinks at the UNSW roundhouse. We […]
We enjoyed our first social activity in 2023 – drinks and pizza at a the Doncaster pub. This was to celebrate some of our recently accepted papers (congrats team superalloys led by Felix for their recent review paper, Bernd for his Jalcomp paper and Vitor for a Scripta Materialia letter) and Cindy’s birthday (Happy Birthday, […]
Congrats to Wilson – his MSc thesis corrections have just been approved. Wilson started with us as an Honour’s student in 2019 and stuck around for longer, pursuing research on Ni-based superalloys in Sophie’s first ARC Linkage grant. Not an easy task as his postgrad stint with us clashed with a global pandemic. Anyhow, thanks […]
A busy and successful year comes to an end soon. We celebrated this Aussie style at a lawn balls place in Randwick followed by a BBQ last weekend. Thanks to Maxwell and Nima for organising and shopping and Ehsan and many others for cooking. In 2022, we had four HDR thesis submissions (Arnab, Wilson, Richard, […]
Vitor submitted his excellent PhD thesis on aerospace Ni-based superalloys last week. This was a little bit ahead of the four year mark for Scientia PhD students (Vitor and Nana were/are in this prestigious program). Vitor was incredibly productive during his PhD despite various pandemic interruptions and spending half of 2022 abroad traveling and collaborating […]
Our team rocked the annual UNSW postgraduate student society poster competition held in November 2022 which was back for the first time after a couple of years of Covid interruptions. 28 research posters (all of excellent quality) were presented to a critical panel of around ten judges (academics and PostDocs from our school). Our group […]
Richard recently submitted his PhD thesis on processing-structure-property relationships in a Ni-based superalloy which has been to outer space! This alloy is also critical for next generation aero engines, and is manufactured in Australia, with lots of input from our research. This had to be celebrated with an Italian (not Austrian) dinner in Newtown and […]
We have a freshly baked PhD alumnus, Dr AC! Arnab’s PhD thesis titled ‘On the design of microstructures in low carbon microalloyed steels’ received excellent reports with both examiners requesting no changes. We are as happy as Arnab, and luckily he will hang around for longer as technical officer at the UNSW electron microscopy unit! […]
We made a few updates to our group website, most importantly, we have made a couple of great new videos. You can find them in our Opportunities and Facilities sections. There is also a cool new video from our recent AUSMURI project review at the bottom of the projects sections. All our videos can be […]
Thirteen of us (!) all went to Melbourne to attend the Materials Australia CAMS conference at the University of Melbourne (June 1-3). For some HDR students, this was their first face to face conference experience, and we contributed one keynote lecture (Sophie), one invited talk (Nima), nine contributed talks (various team members), and one poster […]
