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Executive Committee and OfficersExecutive Committee
Pedro Dolabella Portella obtained his B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Materials Engineering at the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME) in Rio de Janeiro - seven years spent literally at the foot of the Sugar Loaf! His doctoral studies were undertaken in Erlangen, Germany, in the group of Wolfgang Blum. Since then his research activities have been mainly devoted to metallic materials for high temperature applications. This period included three years at the Catholic University in Rioas as an assistant professor, which was a time of rich experiences during weekends spent amongst the communities in the periphery of Rio. Since 1987 he has been at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany. In January 2000 he became there the head of the Department "Materials Engineering". He is married to a teacher of French and History, and they have two sons.
Ehrenfried Zschech is Senior Manager of the Center for Complex Analysis at AMD in Dresden, which he joined in 1997. His responsibilities include the analytical support for process control and technology development, as well as physical failure analysis. He received his diploma degree in solid-state physics and his Dr. rer. nat. degree from Dresden University of Technology. After having spent four years as a project leader in the field of metal physics and reliability of microelectronics interconnects at the Research Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals in Freiberg, he was appointed as a university teacher for ceramic materials at Freiberg University of Technology. In 1992, he joined the development department at Airbus in Bremen. There he managed the metal physics group and worked on laser joining metallurgy of light metals. His current research interests are in the areas of thin film materials compatibility, structure and materials characterization and physical failure analysis in integrated circuit applications. He has published three books and more than 100 papers in scientific journals in the areas of solid-state physics and materials science. He is honorary professor for nanomaterials at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany.
After completing his PhD in Cambridge (1976), Bill Clyne held University posts in Brazil, Switzerland and Surrey, before returning to Cambridge in 1985 and being appointed to a personal chair in 1999. He has authored ~300 papers, 2 textbooks and 20 software packages, and supervised ~70 PhD students. Research interests include surface coatings and fibre network materials, for various thermo-mechanical and bio-mechanical applications. He is the Director of the Gordon Laboratory, which is supported by several industrial partners. He is also the Director of DoITPoMS, a global initiative to disseminate educational materials science resources.
Bart Blanpain is a full professor at the department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). He obtained an MSc in Metallurgical Engineering (K.U.Leuven) and an MSc and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (Cornell University). His current research areas are high temperature metals production and refining, metallurgical slags, phase equilibria and microstructural evolution modelling. Executive Officers
Juan de Damborenea holds a BSc in Welding and an MSc in Metallurgy and was awarded his PhD in Chemistry by Universidad Complutense, Madrid, in 1985. He has spent time as a postdoctoral fellow and Academic Visitor of Imperial College, London and between 1996 and 2008 was Head of the Corrosion and Protection Department at the National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM/CSIC), becoming a Research Professor in 2007. His main research interests are surface engineering for corrosion and wear resistance and electrochemical methods in corrosion research. Since May 2008 he has been Deputy Vice-President of Scientific-Technical Areas at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), with responsibility for the coordination of its eight research areas.
Margarethe Hofmann-Amtenbrink started as Assistant for Metallography in industry. She then studied foundry technology and materials science and received her PhD in materials science at Max Planck Institute Stuttgart and Technical University Berlin, Germany. In 1987 she started her own business (Mat Search Consulting Hofmann) in Switzerland. Among various consulting activities for industry she became CEO of the Swiss governmental Priority Program for Materials (PPM 1991-1994), CEO of the Swiss Association for Materials Technology, SVMT and President until 2007, and is still CEO of the Foundation for Rare Metals, ESM. Since about 10 years she is involved in research projects on nanoparticles for biomedical applications and initiated two European Research Projects (FP5 and FP7) for which she was/will be the scientific coordination. Since 5 years she is organising the technical sessions of the conference NanoEurope in Switzerland. She is member of several Advisory Boards in Germany and individual member and member of the Scientific Board of the Swiss Academy for Engineering Sciences, SATW, Switzerland. M. Hofmann-Amtenbrink has published several reports in the field of technology assessment and innovation and published book chapters and articles in the field of biomedical nanotechnology.
George Kaptay is a native of Hungary. He received his MSc (1984) and PhD (1988) in Metallurgical Engineering from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Russia. His DSc was awarded in 2005 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1999 he has been a full professor of the University of Miskolc, Hungary. He established a new Hungarian Research Institute on Nanotechnology (BAY-NANO) in 2006. Currently, he is its Vice-director on scientific affairs and head of the Department of Nano-composites. Professor Kaptay has written about 250 research papers and received more than 450 independent citations. He has served FEMS as an Executive Officer since 2006.
Professor Jan Kusinski holds degrees of: Master (1969), PhD (1976), and D.Sc (1989) from the University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland. He began his academic career as a lecturer at the same university in 1972, later becoming an Assistant Professor in 1976 and Associate Professor-in-Residence in 1990, and ultimately accepting a full-time appointment to the faculty in 1998. He is Head of the Surface Engineering and Materials Characterization Department. His research contributions span the study of: surface engineering, nanostructured materials, aerospace alloys, oxides, electronic materials and devices. He is author or co-author of over 270 technical publications.
Hélène Réglé studied Engineering and Materials Science at Ecole Centrale de Lille and went on to obtain a PhD in Materials Science at the University of Paris. She works as a research engineer in the Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy Department at ARCELOR’s Automotive Research Centre in Maizières-lès-Metz, where she is the project leader for crystallographic textures and recrystallisation. She is also an Associate Research Director at the Laboratory of Mechanical and Thermodynamical Properties of Materials at CNRS in Paris. She was elected Treasurer of the French Society for Metallurgy and Materials (SF2M) four years ago.
Dr Brett Suddell is a Senior Materials Scientist with ADAS working in the field of natural composites. Brett is the Senior Vice President of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3) and the Honorary Overseas Secretary. He is also a member of Council, the Managing Board and Local Affairs Board of The Institute. He is a trustee of IoM3 and the Institute of Packaging. Brett is the Immediate Past President of the South Wales Materials Association and a steering group member of Materials Network Wales, Welsh Composites Consortium and Construction Knowledge Wales. He is also a member of the ESF pool of reviewers and a reviewer for the Journal of Biobased materials and BioEnergy.
Maurizio Vedani was born in Varese (Italy) on September 21st 1963. He married Elisabetta Gariboldi in 1994, and they have three children: Cecilia, Davide and Roberto. He is currently full professor of metallurgy at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanics. His research activities in recent years concern modification of the structure and properties of metallic alloys during manufacturing processes and service. Particular attention has been devoted to metal matrix composites and, more recently, to structural light alloys and ultrafine-grained metals. He is author of more than 130 papers and conference contributions and has been programme leader of several joint projects of scientific and applied research.
Jean-Marie Welter has Luxemburg citizenship and currently lives in Munich where he is a technical consultant to the copper industry. He obtained his PhD degree from the Nuclear Reactor Department of the Technical University of Munich in 1969. Apart from an interval at the IBM Research Centre in Yorktown Heights, USA, from 1977-78, most of his career until 1985 was spent in the Solid State Department of the Nuclear Research Centre, Jülich, where he become head of the Kristall-Labor for materials preparation and characterisation, working on hydrogen storage and single crystal turbine blades. From 1985 to 2005, he worked in R&D management for the French and European Copper Industries. He was president of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux (SF2M) from 2005-2006.
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