Dr. Isnaldi Souza Filho won the Brazilian PhD Award 2019 for the best national PhD Thesis. November 2020
Early Career Researcher Award
Dr. Huan Zhao has been awarded with the ICAA ECR Award (Early Career Researcher Award) by the ICAA International Committee. October 2020
1st place in Alexander von Humboldt Ranking in Engineering Sciences, 3rd place overall Sciences
The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung achieves the1st place in the Alexander von Humboldt Ranking in Engineering Sciences among all non-university research institutions. It is also ranked 3rd place overall sciences of non-university research institutions. October 2020
Max Planck Trainee Award 2020 & best trainee in the field of materials testing 2020
Annika Laimmer has won theMax Planck Trainee Award 2020 of the Max Planck Society & she has been awarded best trainee in the field of materials testing 2020 of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Düsseldorf (IHK). September 2020
Member of the executive board of the DGM
PD Dr. F. Rotershas been re-elected to the executive board of the DGM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V.) for the term of 2021/22. September 2020
Three new Humboldt fellows, Dr. Stiochko Antonov, Dr. Xuyang (Rhett) Zhou and Dr. Ümit Güder, started their research in our department. August 2020
Acta Student Award
Dr. Huan Zhao received the Acta Student Award from the board of governors for the paper "Parameter free quantitative analysis of atom probe data by correlation functions: Application to the precipitation in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu" published in the journal Scripta Materialia. Scripta Materialia 154 (2018) 106-110, DOI 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.05.024