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Recent Awards & Honours 2022

Honorary Doctor

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) honoured Prof. Dierk Raabe with an honorary doctorate.

Adjunct Professor

Prof. Dr. Franz Roters was appointed adjunct professor by the RWTH Aachen.

Aaronson Award

Dr. Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva has been awarded with the Aaronson Award by the organizing committee of the International Conference on Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials (PTM).

APDIC Best Paper Award 2022

The Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission (APDIC) awarded Benedikt Distl, Leonie Gomell, Angelika Gedsun and Frank Stein and three colleagues from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the RWTH Aachen University, the APDIC Best Paper Award 2022 for the best published manuscript on alloy phase diagram data in 2021.

Awarded publication: Benedikt Distl, Alexander Walnsch, Rosie F. L. Mellor, Leonie Gomell, Mehdi Noori, Angelika Gedsun, and Frank Stein, "Al–Mo–Ti Ternary Phase Diagram Evaluation," MSI Eureka , 1-47 (2021). read more

DGM Prize for Young Talent

The German Materials Society (DGM) awarded Dr. Yan Ma with the DGM Prize for Young Talent.

more details German Materials Society awards Yan Ma

Acta Materialia Gold Medal Recipient

Prof. Dierk Raabe received the Acta Materialia Gold Medal 2022
The Acta Materialia Gold Medal recognizes demonstrated leadership in the field of Materials Science and Engineering.
It rewards either materials research that has had a significant and lasting impact on the development of the discipline, or recent work of great originality.
2022 TMS Spring Meeting

World record in solar cell efficiency achieved

Through the joint effort from scientists at the Universities of Wuppertal, Cologne, Potsdam, Tübingen, the Helmholtz Center Berlin and the MPIE, the first organic-perovskite solar cell with an efficiency of 24% was presented. Simulations show a theoretical limit of 30%, which can be achieved with further innovations.
Leonie Gomell and Siyuan Zhang are co-authors of the publication. The recent findings are published under:
Brinkmann, K.O., Becker, T., Zimmermann, F. et al, Perovskite–organic tandem solar cells with indium oxide interconnect, Nature 604, 280–286 (2022)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04455-0/
more information about MPIE research

ERC Advanced Grant

The ERC (European Research Counsil) awarded Prof. Dierk Raabe with the Advanced Grant for his project “ROC”. “ROC” is an acronym for “Reducing
Iron Oxides without Carbon by using Hydrogen-Plasma”.

Hosting of Humboldt Research Award Winner

Professor Ji-Cheng Zhao, Minta Martin professor of engineering and chair of the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland (USA), receives Humboldt Research Award. This award enables him to deepen the cooperation with our department in the field of combinatorial alloy design and additive manufacturing.