| Members in DFG Committees |
Prof. Dr. Peter Gumbsch (IAM-CMS) was elected to the selection committee for the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prof. Dr. Hans J. Seifert (IAM-AWP) has been a member of the DFG Senate Committee and the DFG Grants Committee for Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) since July. |
| Bronislava Gorr at the IAM-AWP |
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Bronislava Gorr was appointed to the W3 professorship for material behavior under extreme environmental conditions at the IAM-AWP as of 01.10.2020. Currently she is supported by a Heisenberg professorship. |
| Ulrike Krewer appointed to IAM-ET |
The IAM-ET, whose research is dedicated to the core components of electrochemical energy technology for electromobility and stationary energy conversion and storage, has been headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Krewer since April 2020. |
| Christoph Kirchlechner at the IAM-WBM |
Prof. Dr. mont. Christoph Kirchlechner has taken over the leadership of the IAM-WBM at the beginning of 2020, where metallic, ceramic, polymeric and natural materials are investigated. |
| Board of AWT |
Prof. Volker Schulze (IAM-WK, WBK) was elected to the board of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wärmebehandlungs- und Werkstofftechnik e.V. (AWT). The AWT is a technical-scientific association dealing with materials-oriented technologies. |
| Call to Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences |
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katrin Schulz (IAM-CMS) has accepted an appointment at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences. Here she is professor for engineering mechanics and materials science at the faculty of mechanical engineering and mechatronics. |
| European Soft Innovation Prize |
The work "Development of advanced solid neutron multiplier for innovative T-breeding blanket design" of the group led by Dr. Pavel Vladimirov at IAM-AWP was awarded the 2nd of the "European Soft Innovation Prize" by the EU Commission. |
| New member of acatech |
The German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) has elected Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Gumbsch (IAM-CMS) to the circle of its members. |
| Federal Order of Merit |
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Britta Nestler (IAM-CMS) received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her research achievements in the field of computational materials research. A video about this in the KIT-Mediathek |
