The award was accepted by Prof. Dr. Helmut Clemens (center). Left: Prof. Dr. Ronald Schnitzer; right: Prof. Dr. Frank Mücklich, the organizer of the International Materialography Conference in Saarbrücken.The award was accepted by Prof. Dr. Helmut Clemens (center). Left: Prof. Dr. Ronald Schnitzer; right: Prof. Dr. Frank Mücklich, the organizer of the International Materialography Conference in Saarbrücken.

Buehler Best Paper Award 2021 for the best publication of the year

The "Buehler Best Paper Award" recognizes the best papers from the journal "Praktische Metallographie / Practical Metallography" of the past year. In…

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Farewell celebration of Helmut Clemens after 19 years at the Department of Materials Science

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Clemens will retire on October 1, 2022 and thus leave the Montanuniversität Leoben after 19 years. Helmut Clemens and the…

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©Foto Fischer: f.l.t.r.: WKO Kammerdirektor Dr. Karl-Heinz Dernoscheg, MBA, Anna Paulik, Maximilian Reiter, Anna Christine Krammer, Thomas Antretter.

WKO - Research scholarships awarded to Maximilian Reiter and Anna Paulik for their master's theses at the Department of Materials Science

The research scholarships of the WKO Steiermark were awarded this year to two master students of the Department of Materials Science, to Anna Paulik…

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2nd place at the Dörrenberg StudienAWARD to Daniel Rainer

Daniel Rainer was awarded with the second place in the Dörrenberg StudienAWARD for his bachelor thesis entitled "Defect and microstructure…

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©AVS Conference Photos, f.l.t.r.: Prof. Ivan Petrov (Chair of the Advanced Surface Engineering Division (ASED) Awards Committee), Andreas Kretschmer (TU Wien, Gold Finalist), Yvonne Moritz (Montanuniversität, Bronze Finalist), Damian Holzapfel (RWTH Aachen, Silver Finalist) ©AVS Conference Photos, f.l.t.r.: Prof. Ivan Petrov (Chair of the Advanced Surface Engineering Division (ASED) Awards Committee), Andreas Kretschmer (TU Wien, Gold Finalist), Yvonne Moritz (Montanuniversität, Bronze Finalist), Damian Holzapfel (RWTH Aachen, Silver Finalist)

Graduate Student Award for Yvonne Moritz

Yvonne Moritz, PhD student at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Coated Cutting Tools at the Department of Materials Science, was awarded…

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Successful habilitation of Nina Schalk in the field surface engineering

With her research activities at the Chair of Functional Materials and Materials Systems, Nina Schalk has developed into an internationally recognized…

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IUVSTA Prize for Science for Christian Mitterer

The triennial IUVSTA Prize for Science of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications will be awarded in 2022 to Christian…

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Farewell of the past chairman Ronald Schnitzer (left) by the past chairman deputy Thomas Resch (right)

Daniel Kiener takes over the role of the chairman of the Leoben Materials Science Association (Verein Leobener Werkstoffwissenschafter) from Ronald Schnitzer

Ronald Schnitzer took over the role as chairman of the Leoben Materials Science Association (Verein Leobener Werkstoffwissenschafter, VLW) from Helmut…

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Start of a new FWF project on nano-fracture at the Chair of Materials Physics

The new FWF project Nanofracture - Origin of fracture in high strength materials led Daniel Kiener from the Chair of Materials Physics started on…

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PhD student Abdullah Jabr with the „Nittany Lion“ at the Pennsylvania State University

Marshall Plan award to explore “cold sintering” of ceramics at the Penn State

Abdullah Jabr has been awarded a Marschall Plan stipend to perform research at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), as part of his doctoral…

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