Awards & Achievements

Christian Broß

Material tester, won the prize for the best trainee in the region Düsseldorf, awarded by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the regions Duisburg-Kleve-Wesel.

Vijayshankar Dandapani

Doctoral student from India, working in the group “Corrosion”, had a selected talk at the Gordon Research Conference 2016 on Aqueous Corrosion in New London, USA.

Dr. Xufei Fang

Postdoctoral researcher from China, was awarded a research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foun-dation and is now working in the group “Nanotribology”.

Herbert Faul

Materials tester and training supervisor, was awarded the Silver Badge of Honour for his more than ten years of auditing work from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Duisburg.

Nataliya Malyar

Doctoral student from Russia and working in the group “Nano- and Micromechanics of Materials”, received the Best Poster Award at the Gordon Research Conference 2016 in Lewiston, USA.

Julian Rechmann

Doctoral student in the group “Interface Spectroscopy”, won the Best Poster Award at the 16thInternational Conference on Orga-nized Molecular Films in Helsinki, Finland.

Dr. Michael Rohwerder

Head of the group “Corrosion”, Dr. Asif Bashir and Dr. Motomichi Koyama, former postdoctoral researchers at the MPIE, received the “Japan Institute of Metals and Materials Metallography Award”.

Dr. Hauke Springer

Head of the group “Combinatorial Metallurgy and Processing”, received the “Werner Köster Award” being the first author of the paper “A novel roll bonding methodology for the cross-scale analysis of phase properties and interactions in multiphase structural materials”, together with Prof. Dr. Dierk Raabe and Prof. Dr. Cem Tasan.

Dr. Frank Stein

Head of the group “Intermetallic Materials”, was awarded with the “APDIC Best Paper Award 2015”.

Dr. Xiankang Zhong

Postdoctoral researcher from China, was awarded a research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is now working in the group “Corrosion”.