NFDI-MatWerk Spring School 2025 in Aachen – Research Data Management in Materials Science and Engineering
Why is it important?
Enabling a consistent and unobstructed standardization of research data will lead to substantial improvements in efficiency and synergies/collaboration among individual researchers and well-designed IT systems. In the era of digital infrastructures, this measure holds paramount importance in shaping the future of research. For the data to be sustainable and reusable, it must adhere to the “FAIR Data Principles”, meaning it should be “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable”.
The FAIR principles will be a cornerstone of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) implementation. Nowadays, Data Management Plans (DMPs) have become a requirement for project applications in Horizon Europe and are increasingly being demanded by various funding organizations, including the German Science Foundation (DFG), among others.
The scientific consortium NFDI-MatWerk (National Research Data Infrastructure) focuses on the research area Materials Science & Materials Engineering (MSE). The central challenge is the digital representation of materials and their relevant process and load parameters. NFDI-MatWerk will provide in this summer school tailored information and solutions for dealing with research data in MSE.
Who can apply?
PhD-students and Post-Docs working in experimental and/or modeling/simulation in any field of materials science and engineering (with or without experience in RDM). Advanced Master Students are also welcome to apply.
The Spring School will take place:
📅 From Tuesday, April 8th to Thursday, April 10th, 2025
📍 At RWTH Aachen University, IT Center, Aachen
Registration deadline: March 15, 2025
Please keep in mind that the number of participants is limited. Therefore, the “First Come-First Served” principle will be applied. Those who register first will have priority to obtain a place in the spring school.
- Keynote: Artificial Intelligence in MSE
- Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM)
- Do’s and dont’s in RDM
- RDM as a Cultural Change
- Data Management Plan (DMP)
- Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN)
- Python tools for RDM
- PyIron: Complex workflows made easy
- Coscine: Research Data Management Platform
- Metadata & Metadata Management: A Practical Approach
- How to Digitalize a Lab? Integration of Proprietary Data
- Digital Materials Science Lab: Lab Tour IMM & RDM and Workflows
- NFDI-MatWerk: What is it and how to be part of it?
- MatWerk Ontology: The Future of the Lab
- Optional for participants from NRW: Coscine
PhD-students and Post-Docs working in experimental and/or modeling/simulation in any field of materials science and engineering (with or without experience in RDM), maximum 20 places will be available. Basic knowledge of programming, for instance in Python, MatLab or similar programing languages would be beneficial.
Participants should bring their own laptop. Please install a python environment on your computer, for instance: Miniconda, PyCharm, Jupyter or at least ipython. It is required in some lectures!
Tuesday, April 8th
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and introduction to the event – Matthias Müller (RWTH/ITC)
10:30 – 11:30 Keynote: AI – Stefan Sandfeld (FZ Jülich)
11:30 – 12:00 Introduction of the team and the participants
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Introduction to Research Data Mangement (RDM) – Katharina M. E. Grünwald, Amirreza Moghaddam (RWTH-IT Center)
14:00 – 14:30 Do’s and dont’s in RDM – Steffen Brinckmann (FZ Jülich, RWTH)
14:30 – 15:00 NFDI-MatWerk – Amirreza Moghaddam (RWTH-ITC)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Python tools for RDM – Jonathan Hartman (RWTH-DKZ.2R)
16:30 – 17:00 Pyiron – Sarath Menon (MPI)
18:30 – 20:00 Guided Tour Aachen
Meeting point: Tourist Info Elisenbrunnen, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz, 52062 Aachen
20:00 – (open) Dinner
Wednesday, April 9th
09:00 – 10:30 Metadata – Sabrine Chelbi (KIT)
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Metadata management with MatWerk: practical approach – Sabrine Chelbi (KIT)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Digital Materials Science Lab – Part 1: Lab tour of IMM – Sandra Korte-Kerzel (RWTH-IMM)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Data Management Plan – Katharina M. E. Grünwald, Amirreza Moghaddam (RWTH-ITC)
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18:00 Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN) – Nicole Parks (RWTH-ITC), Steffen Brinckmann (FZ Jülich, RWTH)
18:00 – 18:30 How to digitalize a lab? Integration of proprietary data – Steffen Brinckmann (FZ Jülich, RWTH)
19:00 – (open) Get together
Thursday, April 10th
9:00 – 10:00 Digital Materials Science Lab – Part 2: RDM and Workflows – Urlich Kerzel (RWTH-IMM)
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 MatWerk Ontology: Future of the lab – Angelika Gedsun (Freiburg), Ebrahim Norouzi (FIZ)
12:00 – 12:30 Break
12:30 – 13:30 RDM as Cultural Change – Norbert Riefler (IWT)
13:30 – 14:00 Farewell
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
14:30 – 16:00 Optional for participants from NRW: Coscine – Katja Jansen (RWTH-ITC)
Keynote: AI
Python tools for RDM
- Data Import and Export (e.g. pyexcel-ods)
- Data representation (matplotlib)
- Image processing
- API programing
Introduction to Research Data Management (RDM)
- File and directory management (unique, consistent data storage on your computer)
- Can explain and interpret the FAIR principles
- Short overview of NFDIs
- Annotate data (tool/program overview)
Do’s and dont’s in RDM
How to be part of NFDI-MatWerk?
PyIron
Metadata
Metadata management with MatWerk: practical approach
Digital Materials Science Lab – Part 1: Lab tour of IMM
Data Management Plan (DMP)
- Describe the purpose of a data management plan (DMP) in relation to FAIR
- Create a DMP for their research project
- Utilize tools, guides, templates, and resources for DMP creation
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN)
- Understands the necessity of using ELNs
- Identify key features of ELNs
- Identify personal requirements for an ELN
- Use of an API for lab automation
How to digitalize a lab? Integration of proprietary data
Digital Materials Science Lab – Part 2: RDM and Wokflow
MatWerk Ontology: Future of the lab
RDM as Cultural Change
Optional for participants from NRW: Coscine
- Sandra Korte-Kerzel – RWTH Aachen University, Institut für Metallkunde und Materialphysik (IMM)
- Ulrich Kerzel – RWTH Aachen University, Institut für Metallkunde und Materialphysik (IMM)
- Katharina M. E. Grünwald – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center
- Matthias Müller – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center
- Amirreza Daei Rezaei Moghaddam – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center
- Jonathan Hartman – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center, Datenkompetenzzenter Rhein Ruhr (DKZ.2R)
- Nicole Parks – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center
- Katja Jansen – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center
- Steffen Brinckmann – Forschungszentrum Jülich und RWTH Aachen University, Lehrstuhl für Werkstoffmodellierung in der Umformtechnik
- Stefan Sandfeld – Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Norbert Riefler – Leibniz-Institut für Werkstofforientierte Technologien Bremen (IWT)
- Sabrine Chelbi – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Scientific Computing Center (KIT-SCC)
- Ebrahim Norouzi – FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur (FIZ)
- Angelika Gedsun – University of Freiburg
- Sarath Menon – Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung Düsseldorf
Organisation:
- Katharina M. E. Grünwald (gruenwald@itc.rwth-aachen.de) – RWTH Aachen University, IT Center
- Flavio Soldera (f.soldera@matsci.uni-sb.de) – Universität des Saarlandes, EUSMAT
- Pranav Nayak (pranav.nayak@uni-saarland.de) – Universität des Saarlandes
RWTH Aachen Universität, IT Center
Seminarraum 003
Kopernikusstraße 6
52074 Aachen
Online: some lectures will be recorded.
Accommodation is not included in the registration.
Aachen offers a wide range of hotel rooms in various price categories. Participants are free to choose their accommodation, and we kindly ask you to make all bookings directly with the hotel.
Most hotel reservations require a valid credit card in order to guarantee the booking. We advise you also to check the cancellation terms with the hotel at the time of booking / reserving the accommodation.
Recommendations
- Hotel Baccara
(close to IT Center)
Turmstraße 174
52064 Aachen - Bestprice Hotel Aachen Hauptbahnhof
(affordable and near the main station)
Römerstraße 5
52064 Aachen - Haus am Hühnerdieb
(in the city center)
Rommelsgasse 2-3
52062 Aachen
Please keep in mind that the number of participants is limited. Therefore, the “First Come-First Served” principle will be applied.
Registration deadline: March 15, 2025
Those who register first will have priority to obtain a place in the spring school.
NFDI-MatWerk Spring School 2025
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The participation is free of charge.
The event will take place in English.
In case of further inquiries please contact: office@eusmat.net
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