Johannes Schneider lehrt mit Herzblut. Wir freuen uns deshalb sehr für ihn, dass er mit einem KIT-Fakultätslehrpreis belohnt wurde und sagen DANKE für sein außerordentliches Engagement im Bereich Lehre.
Aufgrund einer herausragenden Masterarbeit gewinnt Pauline Klute den Hanns-Voith-Stiftungspres 2024. Wir gratulieren!
Professor Peter Gumbsch was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). The task of acatech is to advise politics and society on future issues relating to technology science and technology policy.
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On December 5, 2019, Dr. Christian Greiner was awarded the Adolfs Martens Prize in Berlin for outstanding work in the field of materials research. We congratulate!
To the BAM press release
Dr. Christian Greiner was elected member of the review boards of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In this function he will participate as an expert in the field of "Mechanical properties of metallic materials and their microstructural causes" in the evaluation of applications for financial support of research projects.
To the DFG Review Board electionJulia Lehmann was awarded the Maurice Godet Award at this year's 46th LeedsLyon Symposium on Tribology in Lyon for the best presentation entitled "Velocity-dependence of tribologically-induced oxidation of high-purity copper", a prize in honour of the co-founder of the symposium, which honours the work of young scientists in the field of tribology.
We congratulate very warmly!
Dr. Christian Greiner was awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for his research on materials under tribological stress.
The ERC is thus funding the project TriboKey (Deformation Mechanisms are the Key to Understanding and Tayloring Tribological Behaviour) for five years with approximately two million euros.
Peter Gumbsch will assume the chairmanship of the Scientific Commission of the German Science Council on February 1, 2017. The Science Council advises the Federal Government and the governments of the Länder on issues relating to the content and structural development of universities, science and research. The Science Council consists of two commissions, the Scientific Commission with 32 representatives of science and public life and the Administrative Commission with the representatives of the Federal Government and the Länder, which meet in the Plenary Assembly and take joint decisions there.
Lars Pastewka, who heads an Emmy-Noether junior research group at IAM-CMS on the simulation of friction and wear of amorphous materials, funded by the German Research Foundation, has been offered the W3 professorship for simulation by the University of Freiburg.
The German Research Foundation supports the research of Martin Dienwiebel on applied nanotribology. Here the press release of KIT and the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM.
Prof. Dr. Peter Gumbsch, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg and Professor of Mechanics of Materials at IAM-CMS, has been elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering NAE have been elected. For this purpose the press release of the KIT and the announcement of the NAE.
Dr. Katrin Schulz has been selected for the Margarete von Wrangell habilitation programme has been. Through the programme, the state of Baden-Württemberg supports outstanding female researchers on the way to professorship.
KIT press release