Awards & Achievements

Viviane Becker

Received the 1st prize in the programming competition 2011 of the Mathe-dual e.V. This society promotes dual apprenticeships in the field of mathematics, informatics and technical studies.

Dipl.-Ing. Nahid Elhami

Is the winner of the 1st poster prize at the Electron-Backscatter-Diffraction-Meeting 2011, a conference organized by the royal Microscopical Society. On her poster Elhami explained the application of cEC-CI images for defect analysis in TWIP steels.

Dr. Sebastian Klemm

Received the 'Dr. Klaus-Seppeler-Stiftungspreis' of the Dr. Klaus-Seppeler-Stiftung and the Gesellschaft für Korrosionsschutz e.V. (society for Corrosion Protection) for his dissertation titled “Microelectrochemical characterization of Zn, ZnO and Zn-Mg alloys with online dissolution monitoring”.

Dr. Chris Race

From London received a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and chose the MPIE for his research on the analysis of the structure of alloys with the help of simulations.

Prof. Dr. Dierk Raabe

Received the DGM Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialwissenschaften for his innovative work in the field of microstructure physics.

Dr. Franz Roters

Group leader in the department of ‘Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design, has successfully completed his habilitation at the RWTH Aachen. His habilitation thesis is titled “Advanced material models for the crystal plasticity finite element method – development of a general CPFEM framework”.

Dr. Stefanie Sandlöbes

Received the ‘Friedrich-Wilhelm-Preis’ of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stiftung and the ‘Borchers-Plakette” of the RWTH Aachen for her dissertation about investigations on the application of non-intrusive in-situ measurement methods for the analysis of metallurgical gases.

The MPIE’s high performance computer cluster

Is ranking once again in the list “Top 500” of the worldwide best computers‘. In Germany it is on rank 29.