A further DocMASE candidate finished!! EUSMAT congratulates Claudia de Melo for finishing her PhD in combination between University of Lorraine (France) and Saarland University (Germany). Her supervisors were David Horwat, Maud Jullien and Frank Mücklich. The work was supported by the EU (Erasmus Mundus) and the Franco-German University. In the pictures with the supervisors and the members of the jury.

EUSMAT congratulates Farnoosh Forouzan for her very successfull thesis defense in Lulea in the frame of DocMASE. In the picture together with the oponenet and the members if the thesis committee. Well done Dr. Forouzan!!!

EUSMAT strongly supports the initiative of the German Rectors Conference (Hochschulrektorenkonferenz) for border-free study in Europe through active participation of its citizens in the European elections!

Through Marie Sklodowska-Curie, researchers from EU can apply for doing research stages in selected countries. Our partner from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil would be glad to host researchers for two years projects in any of the following topics: PVD coatings for tribological applications using magnetron sputtering techniques (HiPIMS and DC); Magnesium alloys for mechanical and biological applications; Thermomechanical processing of magnesium and titanium alloys; In-situ synchrotron radiation research; and Residual stress and texture analyses using X-rays and synchrotron radiation. For further information, please contact directly our colleague Haroldo Pinto

Excellent feedback from course “Personality training” for students of Materials Science and Engineering: EUSMAT made possible the course Personality training held by Ms. Ute Heinrich-Mücklich the 21st and 22nd of March at the Saarland University. The student´s feedback was very possitive, e .g. “I find such a seminar should be offered to all students of a year class because it is very meaningful for the vocational career”. We will continue supporting this course and we thank Ms. Heinrich-Mücklich for her very professional training module!

DAAD-PPP-Brazil: our cooperation project with Brazil is full in swing – 4 guest researchers from University of Sao Paulo and PUC Minas Gerais have joined the institute of functional materials in the last week. Welcome Bruna, Pedro, Maria and Paulo. Together with our PhD student Leandro, we have now 5 Brasilians coworkers at the institute!

Many thanks to the official site of the Saarland.de for highlighting EUSMAT’s acitvities in the region! 😁🤓

Thank you FBO for your professional support and the pleasant cooperation!!

EUSMAT being advertised by the official site of the Saarland! The Saarland marketing campaign chose to give us a little spotlight for all the international students we bring to Saarbrücken. 😄🥳

From 25th to 27th March we offered at our chair of Functional Materials in collaboration with the research center MECS and the German Materials Society (DGM) a training course on “Introduction to modern methods of microstructure analysis”. 12 participants comming from Germany, Switzerland and France joined the course. Further information about this course, that will be offered again next year, can be found in: https://www.dgm.de/index.php?id=1523.