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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 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...

The Colloquium on Fatigue Mechanisms has been taking place at different locations for many years. This year, MSE I had the honour of welcoming around 40 participants from various European universities. On 10 & 11 April, almost 20 presentations took place, which led to lively discussions on the t...

The annual conference of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), which was held this year from March 23 to 27 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas right on the famous Las Vegas Boulevard ("The Strip"), attracted more than 4,000 participants from industry and research, just as in previous ...

On 19.02.2025, Dr. Ing. Sebastian Krauß successfully completed his doctorate with the title: “Deformation mechanisms of laminar materials based on micromechanical and microtribological characterization”. The main focus was on the fatigue behavior of multilayer copper laminates and the lubrication pr...

On February 7, 2025, Mr. Philip Goik successfully defended his dissertation entitled "Microstructurally adapted Al-Mg-Si extrusion profiles for mobility applications with high ductility requirements ". In his research, Mr. Goik investigated the influence of texture formation during the extrusion pro...

The Chair of General Materials Properties warmly congratulates Dr.-Ing. Steffen Neumeier on his successful habilitation and the associated granting of the teaching license. This academic distinction is associated with the award of the title of Private Lecturer. PD Dr. Neumeier has been a respecte...

On December 6, 2024, Mr. Maher Ghanem successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Cu/Fe nanolayer composites processed by Accumulative Roll-Bonding”. He therefore mainly dealt with the nanomechanical properties of multi-rolled copper-iron laminates. Since May 2023, he has been working as a p...