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On January 12, 2025, Mr. Stefan Gabel successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “New in-situ micro-bending beam methods for determining the fatigue life on the microscale and the fracture toughness of α-Cr / β-NiAl precipitation systems.” In his thesis, he developed innovative experimental ...

On January 9, 2026, Mr. Benedikt Ernst successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Creep behavior of lead-free Sn-Ag3.8-Cu0.7 solder, taking into account the oligocrystalline microstructure of cast bulk samples.” The work was carried out in close cooperation with the Technical University of In...

On 11 November 2025, PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Steffen Neumeier gave his inaugural lecture in the Bernhard Ilschner Lecture Hall at the Department of Materials Science at FAU. Under the title “The hotter, the better – The enduring quest for superior superalloys”, Dr. Neumeier took the audience on a journe...

A very special event for us at MSE-1 this year was the 51st Retreat Symposium in October. This year's chair seminar took place at the Hotel Wutzschleife in the Upper Palatinate. Our Retreat Symposium at MSE-1 already looks back on a 50-year tradition. In the early years, participants met at Bernhard...

The meeting of the working group “Mechanical Behavior of Materials at High Temperatures” on October 15, 2025, at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching provided a concise overview of current developments in high-temperature materials research. The combination of established to...

On July 22, 2025, Mr. Frédéric Houllé successfully defended his dissertation entitled: “Tailored large-scale atomostic simulations of regular and inverted microstructure Ni-base superalloys.” Due to the geographical distance of the examination committee, the defense took place online, and the celebr...

On Friday, July 11, 2025, Mr. Andreas Kirchmayer successfully defended his dissertation titled: "Investigation of the Influence of Different Grain Boundary Phases on the Mechanical Properties of Nickel- and Cobalt-Based Superalloys". The main objective of his work was to identify which phases pre...