Dr. Rheinheimer joined the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette (USA) as a visiting assistant professor.

For more information visit:

https://www.fz-juelich.de/fieldsmatter/EN/News/VisitingAssistantProfessor_Rheinheimer.html

Dr. Zhou, Prof. Dr. Guillon and Prof. Dr. Vaßen received within the category “Original Research Article” the 1st Prize in Coatings 2018. The title of the Original Research Article is "Development of YSZ Thermal Barrier Coatings Using Axial Suspension Plasma Spraying".

The article (Coatings 2017, 7(8), 120) is available here:

https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings7080120.

Prof. Dr. Guillon is elected as a full member of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering (IISS).

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https://www.iiss-sci.org/index.php/oliver-guillon

Prof. Dr. Guillon was admitted to the World Academy of Ceramics (class “Science”).

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http://www.waceramics.org/namesnews.shtml

O. Guillon and his colleagues F. Wakai, G. Okuma and N. Nishiyama received the best paper award 2019 for their article “Sintering forces acting among particles during sintering by grain-boundary/surface diffusion” in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (JACerS).
The article (J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 2019; 102: 538-547) is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15716

Dr. Brede gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis)

The paper (Scripta Materialia 178 (2020) 18-23) is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.10.048

Dr. Jongmanns gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis)

The paper (New J. Phys., 20 (2018) 093013) is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aadd5a

Dr. Stadler gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis)

The paper (Nanoscale Adv., 1 (2019) 4290-4295) is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NA00467J

Dr. Mishra was honoured with the Acta Student Award for his paper "On the role of Debye temperature in the onset of flash in three oxides" in 2019

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta-materialia/news/recipients-of-the-2019-acta-student-awards

The paper (Scripta Materialia 170 (2019) 81-84) is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.05.030.

Dr. Bram received the title: “adjunct professor (german: außerplanmäßiger Professor (apl.-Prof.))” from the dean of the department for Mechanical Engineering.

His group works in the field of Particle-Based Processing and Sintering at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH.
https://www.iw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/iw/lehrstuhl/extern.html.de

https://www.fz-juelich.de/iek/iek-1/EN/Research/Multidisciplinary_Activities/Team_ParticleProcessing_Sintering/_node.html

Dr. Rheinheimer successfully applied to the Emmy Noether program and is now leading a junior research group at IEK-1. Since 2020, his research group is working on the topic: "Interfaces in functional ceramics: a way to optimize material properties".

For more information please visit:

https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/435025113

Prof. Dr. Guillon is elected as Fellow of the European Ceramic Society.

For more information please visit:

https://www.jara.org/en/research/energy/news/detail/ECERS-Fellow-Guillion

The awarding of the certificate will take place during the XVII ECerS Conference, which will be held as a joint event with the ICC9 and Electroceramics XVIII Conferences, in Krakow, Poland, in July 2022.

Prof. Dr. Mathur was honored with the Woody White Service Award at the F21MRS. This award honors “outstanding individuals who have embodied MRS’s mission, vision and values for an egalitarian interdisciplinary community advancing materials science and technology.

For more information please visit:

https://www.mrs.org/careers-advancement/awards/fall-awards/mrs-woody-white-service-award

Prof. Dr. Mathur has been elected as “Foreign Fellow” (FNA) of The National Academy of Sciences, India. His nomination was based on his distinct and successful research accomplishments and his role as a true international ambassador of science.

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http://nasi.nic.in/