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Robert Singer

FEMS is very sad to announce the sudden death of Robert Singer, former FEMS President (2006-2007) and Honorary FEMS member

FEMS joins the DGM (German Materials Society) in mourning the loss of a very eminent and successful scientist and highly esteemed colleague and will honour his memory.

Read the full DGM Obituary. Read more

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The 18th ECASIA will be held from 15th to 20th September 2019 in Dresden, Germany - also called the “Florence of the North”.

The ECASIA’19 conference will be organized in Dresden initiated by the Institute of Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden) in cooperation with the Technical University Dresden (TUD) and other academic and industrial partners of the region. We hope to continue the conference series in the “spirit of ECASIA” to bring together scientists from universities, industry and instrument suppliers, to bridge the gap between fundamental and applied research in... Read more

Stockholm

Abstract submission EUROMAT2019 deadline extended to 5th April 2019

We invite you to submit your abstract(s) to the 16th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT19), to be held in Stockholm, 1-5 September 2019 Read more

 

The Materiais2019 organizing committee invites all interested individuals to submit scientific abstracts (in English) through the submissions system:
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Moreno

FEMS welcomes Prof Rodrigo Moreno (SOCIEMAT, Spain), pictured left, who was elected to join the Executive Committee as a new executive officer for the term 2019-2020.

Professors Csaba Balazsi (MAE), Aldo Boccaccini (DGM), and Dr Bernie Rickinson (IOM3) were also re-elected on the FEMS Executive Committee for further terms. FEMS also wishes to warmly thank Albano Cavaleiro (SPM) for his sustained contributions as Executive Committee Officer for the period 2015-2018.

Executive Committee elections for the term... Read more

Following the Materials Day celebrations that take place each first Wednesday in November, Mondragon University, together with SOCIEMAT (Spanish Materials Society) and EIT Raw Materials, organized this workshop. The event aimed to gain a broad overview of material trends in the mobility sector, including criticality of resources, light materials processing and recycling. The target public was academia, including students in scientific and... Read more

For the “WORLD MATERIALS DAY 2018” under the umbrella of FEMS, The French materials society, SF2M, is glad to announce the launch of its Young group « Jeunes SF2M » !!! https://sf2m.fr/lancement-du-groupe-jeunes-de-la-sf2m/... Read more

World Materials Day was celebrated on the 7 of November, in Portugal in an event organized by the SPM – Portugal Materials Society.

This year, the chosen place to hold this celebration was the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (FEUP).
During the morning session we had the presentation of the thesis competing for Best Master Thesis in Materials Engineering award.
In the afternoon we had the presence of materials experts from two companies, that delivered talks on the following topics:

“It's all about materials, process and people” by... Read more

As in previous years, SOCIEMAT joined other member societies of FEMS to celebrate the World Materials Day. The World Materials Day event was hold at the Polytechnic University of Madrid on November 7.

During the event the following talks were given by materials experts:

Nanostructured materials: tools to control light, Rosalia Serna, Optical Institute CSIC

What makes us human? The materials in response, José Ygnacio Pastor, Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Also, the SOCIEMAT 2018 prizes were awarded:

SOCIEMAT Caja Ingenieros Award "Best Thesis... Read more

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