Awards & Achievements

Heidi Bögershausen, Luca Bender (photo) und Christian Broß

Materials testers, won the second and third place for their posters at the “MikPräp 2017”, a conference for microscopy and preparation.

Dr. Martin Diehl

Postdoctoral researcher in the group “Theory and Simulation” received the Dr. Klaus-Körper Award of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) and the Borchers-Plakette by the rwtH Aachen University for his doctoral thesis on “High-resolution Crystal Plasticity simulations”.

Till Freieck

Materials tester, gave an excellent talk at the “MikPräp 2017” and won the Apprentice Prize 2017 of the Max Planck society.

Shyam Swaroop Katnagallu

Doctoral student in the group “Atom Probe Tomography”, was awarded by the International Field emission so-ciety (IFes) for his outstanding paper contributed to the Microscopy and Microanalysis meeting 2017.

Dr. Christoph Kirchlechner

Head of the group “Nano-/ Micromechanics of Materials” received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, one of the most important German awards for young scientists.

Philipp Kürnsteiner

Doctoral student in the group “Additive Manufacturing”, won the student scholar Award 2017 by the Microscopy society of America and the Microanalysis society for his paper on “In-process Precipitation During laser Additive Manufacturing Investigated by Atom Probe tomography”.

Wei Luo

Doctoral student in the group “Intermetallic Materials” won the Best student talk Award at the “Nanobrücken 2017” conference for his presentation on “Fracture toughness of Hexagonal and Cubic NbCo2 laves Phases“.

Prof. Dierk Raabe

Chief-executive, successfully applied for a funding of 1.84 million euros by the German Federal Ministry of education and research to develop ultra high-strength lightweight steels.

Dr. Torsten Schwarz

Senior scientist in the group “Interface Design in Solar Cells”, was honoured with the Borchers-Plakette by the RWTH Aachen University for his doctoral thesis “On the Nano-scale Charac-terization of Kesterite Thin-films”.

Ralf Selbach

Head of the mechanical workshop, was awarded with the silver Badge of Honour by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Düsseldorf for his longstanding work as trainer and examiner.