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11/12/2020 | Campus-Meldung

Materials Engineering: Double Success for University of Kassel

Two scientists from the University of Kassel took center stage at the DGM Day of the German Society for Materials Science: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf was re-elected as spokesman of the Young Scientists Committee. His colleague Dr.-Ing. Malte Vollmer received the DGM Young Scientists Award for his research.

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Dr.-Ing. Malte Vollmer (l.) with the certificate and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf.

Premiere for the members of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM): For the first time, the DGM Day took place virtually this year. In the elections to the committees, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Niendorf (Head of the Department of Metallic Materials in the Institute of Materials Engineering) received the most votes as spokesman of the Young Scientists Committee, so that he can continue this activity for another two years. "I am pleased about the trust that the members and especially the young scientists and students have placed in me," said Prof. Niendorf. He announced that an active local group of the DGM will also be founded at the Kassel site.

In addition, the nationally and internationally highly respected DGM prizes were awarded. Here, the scientific employee of the Department of Metallic Materials Dr.-Ing. Malte Vollmer was awarded the DGM Young Investigator Award 2019. This prize is aimed at doctoral students and recent graduates who have demonstrated special achievements in research in the field of materials science and materials engineering. Dr. Vollmer impressed the jury with his work in the field of research into process-microstructure-property relationships in metallic functional materials. The intensive work on shape memory alloys culminated in the successful publication of a paper in the journal Nature Communications in 2019. All published work already enjoys high visibility in the community. Dr. Vollmer completed his PhD "Thermal processing and functional characterization of Fe-Mn-Al-Ni-based shape memory alloys" at the University of Kassel with distinction at the beginning of 2020 and continues his research as a postdoc at the Institute of Materials Engineering.