Our first group strategy retreat at Q station
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, […]
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Ming’s spicy thesis submission dinner
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 […]
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Nana graduation and farewell (double congrats)!
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 […]
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Cindy PhD thesis submission Cantonese dinner
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 […]
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End of year lawn bowls
We concluded a busy and successful year by playing lawn bawls in Randwick. Michal L was killing it and Vitor did well too. Not sure about the others (saw someone making ball hope like a bunny)… We enjoyed lots of pub food and drinks after (hopefully) not getting sunburnt. Have a nice break everyone and […]
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Congrats Michael H on receiving the Dean’s award for outstanding PhD theses
Our PhD and PostDoc alumnus Michael has been awarded the Dean’s award for outstanding PhD theses. This award is given to PhD graduates who have completed their PhD in a timely manner, produced a thesis that requires only minimal corrections, received outstanding and/or excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, and in the opinion […]
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CAMS 24 in Adelaide and congrats Ally on your poster award
Our group (including all PhD students and PostDocs) travelled to hot Adelaide in South Australia to participate in the Materials Australia CAMS 2024 meeting. We presented around 10 talk and 3 posters, and met with some of our alumni (Arnab, Bernd and Nima). Ally took home the 3rd poster prize on an excellent poster summarising […]
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Congrats to our Honour’s student Stella (Materials Australia undergraduate poster comp)
Congratulations to our Honour’s student Stella for securing the 2nd poster prize in the 2024 Materials Australia NSW undergraduate presentation competition. This event was hosted by Western Sydney University on November 28. Stella presented a poster on her Honour’s project on thermo-mechanical processing induced surface failure in Low Nb grade Alloy 718 billets. Well done!
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Farewell Michael Haines
Michael is leaving us to take up a PostDoc Fellowship at NIST Gaithersburg funded via the NRC Research Associateship Program. We are sad to see him leave Australia and our group, but wish him the best for his future endeavours closer to home and are proud his application was funded! We hope to stay in […]
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