Keynote Speaker

 

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• Yongho Sohn, Ph.D., Fellow of ASM
  UCF Pegasus Professor & Lockheed Martin Professor of
  ngineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

  Microstructure, Strengthening Mechanisms and Mechanical Behavior of
  Al₁₈Co₃₀Cr₁₀Fe₁₀Ni₃₀ and Al₁₈Co₃₀Cr₁₀Fe₁₀Ni₃₀W₂ Multi-Principal
  Element Alloy Produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Dr. Yongho Sohn is a Pegasus Professor and Lockheed Martin Professor of Engineering in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Central Florida (UCF). He received his B.S. with honors and M.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He graduated in 1999 with Ph.D. from Purdue University, and spent two years as a post-doctoral research scholar at the University of Connecticut. He joined UCF in 2001 as an assistant professor to pursue his research and teaching interests in metallic alloy powder processing and additive manufacturing, microstructural analysis and control, multicomponent diffusion in multiphase alloys, metallic/ceramic coatings for high temperature applications, and metal-matrix composites. He is an elected Fellow of ASM International (FASM), recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2003), Outstanding Materials Engineer Award from Purdue University (2016), KSEA Engineer of the Year Award (2020). He has served Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) as President in 2023-24. He is an Associate Editor for Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion (Springer), and a member editorial board for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions (Springer). Details on his research and teaching/mentoring activities can be found at http://mse.ucf.edu/sohn.
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• Dr. Anders Magnusson
  Quintus Technologies

  State-of-the-art HIP (hot isostatic pressing) of critical PM components

Anders Magnusson is working as Business Development Manager/Technical Advisor at Quintus Technologies and joined the Quintus team in 2021, following a career of +20 years in R&D, manufacturing and application development of PM high temperature materials and heating systems for industrial and laboratory furnaces. Anders holds a MSc degree in Engineering materials from Chalmers University of Technology.
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• Prof. Seung Ki Moon
  Nanyang Technological University

  Multimodal sensor fusion and machine learning for
  quality prediction in directed energy deposition

Dr. Moon is currently an associate professor (tenured) and assistant chair (research) in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA, in 2008, his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea, in 1995 and 1992, respectively.

He worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea for eight years before embarking on his PhD degree. After completing his doctoral degree, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University for one year as a postdoctoral research associate. He served as a Chair in IEEE Technology Engineering Management (TEM) Singapore Chapter Executive Committee and a Chair in ASME IDETC and CIE Conference, Advanced Modeling and Simulation (AMS) Technical Committee. He has served as committee member in various professional organizations such as IEEE, ASME, Design Society, international conferences and workshops. He is a Chair in Modular Design Research Association. He is an editor of International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing – Smart Technology, an associate editor of Journal of Engineering Design, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing – Green Technology, and Smart Science. He was recognized in the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University in 2023.

He is interested in the boundary-spanning research that integrates the knowledge of design, engineering, and economics. His current focuses include applying sciences, economic theory, and AI to the design of customized and sustainable products, services and systems, strategic and multidisciplinary design optimization, advanced modeling and simulation, design for additive manufacturing/3D printing, embedded sensor design for 3D Printing, digital twins, digital manufacturing, and smart factory.

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• Jörg Fischer-Bühner
  INDUTHERM / BLUEPOWER GmbH (Walzbachtal, Germany)

  Metal powder production technology for
  additive manufacturing

Dr.-Ing. Jörg Fischer-Bühner holds a PhD in Physical Metallurgy and Materials Technology of the technical university RWTH Aachen, Germany. Since 2007 he has been responsible for Research & Development at INDUTHERM and BLUEPOWER Casting Systems GmbH (Walzbachtal, Germany). Before he was Head of the Division of Physical Metallurgy at FEM, the Research Institute for Precious Metals and Metal Chemistry (Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany). His work has included manufacturing support, failure analysis, training and consultancy to manufacturing companies as well as involvement in technical sales activities. Research has focused on alloy development and metallurgical aspects of different equipment and manufacturing technologies, especially investment casting and metal powder fabrication for a variety of applications amongst others for additive layer manufacturing.
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• Dr. Ye Wei
  

  Derivative-free tree optimization for Materials systems

Ye Wei graduated in 2018 with an MSc in Physics from the institute of physics, RWTH Aachen, Germany, and obtained his PhD in 2021 from the Max Planck Institute for Iron research, Germany. For his postdoctoral training, he moved to the Institute of interdisciplinary information science, Tsinghua University, China, to study computer science. Since 2023, Ye moved to institute of Bioengineering, at EPFL to continue his research of AI for computational design. His primary interest lies in physics-informed machine learning and its application in high-dimensional, nonlinear problems encountered in the real-world complex systems.
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• Prof. Raquel De Oro Calderon
  TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

  Critical aspects for an efficient design of novel cemented carbides

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• Prof. Yongchai KWON
  Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecuar Engineering,
  Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

  Aqueous redox flow batteries using various active materials

Dr. Kwon is a professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoultech) since 2011. Now, he serves as a director of Energy and Environmental Research Institute (Key Research Institutes in Universities) and manages Energy and Environmental Materials and Process Lab (http://eemp.seoultech.ac.kr) directing research and education on the development of novel energy devices, such as redox flow batteries, PEM water electolyzer and low temperature fuel cells. Furthermore, he serves as an editor-in-chief of Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering (IF :2.7 (2022), SCIE) from 2023 and was a guest editor of Applied Surface Science (2020 and 2022). His major is chemical engineering, and got his BS and MS degree at Yonsei University of Korea in 1996 and 1998, and his PhD at Rensselar Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2003. Prof. Kwon has published ~180 international journal papers, registered or applied ~60 patents, delivered keynote and invited talks mainly in areas of redox flow batteries, biofuel cells and water electrolyzers. More specifically, in terms of redox flow batteries, he has been interested in the development of (i) new active materials that were dissolved well in aqueous subelectrolyte irrespective of pH and (ii) new redox flow battery stack for large scale energy storage system. As the candidates of active material, pure metals, organic and metal-ligand complex materials as well as vanadium have been considered.
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• Prof. Sang Bok Lee
  University of Maryland

  3D Thin Film Science for Electrical Energy Storage

Prof. Sang Bok Lee is Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, MD, USA. He has also served Deputy Director of the NEES-EFRC (Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage – Energy Frontier Research Center, A DOE supported research center in 2009-2020) for 11 years and continues participating a DOE research program. He had a joint appointment as a WCU Professor and an Invited Professorship (BK21+) at the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, KAIST in 2009-2020). He received his B.S., M.S., and PhD (1997) in Chemistry from Seoul National University, Korea. He then worked at LG Semicon (now SK Hynix), for two years as senior research engineer and held a research associate position at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL), before joining UMD in 2002. He has served the founding President of the Electrodeposition Division of the Korean Electrochemical Society (KECS) and the Science Committee of the 44th International Chemistry Olympiad. His research focuses on the fundamental study of heterogeneous nanostructures and the fast electrochemistry of nanomaterials for applications from high power energy storage to electronics to nanomedicine such as high power batteries, catalytic polymerization, ultrafast electrochromic displays, nanoreactors, nanotoxicology, and drug delivery.
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• Prof. Jason Robinson
  University of Cambridge

  TBA

Jason Robinson FIMMM has a Professorial Chair in Materials Physics at the University of Cambridge where he is a joint Head of the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Director of the Quantum Materials & Devices Group, and co-director of the Centre for Materials Physics. His experimental research focuses on the development of multifunctional materials and devices, approaching key problems in the fields of spintronics, superconductivity, and quantum technologies. He has made major contributions to these fields, including the discovery of triplet Cooper pairs in hybrid superconductor/magnetic devices and pioneering the field of superconducting spintronics.
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• Dr. Christoph Vogler
  Huawei Technologies Austria GmbH, Austria

  Exploring the intersection of magnetism and powder metallurgy:
  applications, properties and challenges

Dr. Christoph Vogler received his PhD in Computational Materials Science from TU Wien in 2015. Following his doctoral studies, he spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher at both TU Wien and the University of Vienna, focusing on the development of magnetic materials for storage, memory and sensor applications. In 2020, Dr. Vogler joined Huawei’s research and development center in Austria, where he helped to build a world-class magnetic materials research facility. He currently leads the Magnetic Materials Team at Huawei Technologies Austria GmbH. In this role, he is responsible for the development of advanced soft and hard magnetic materials for Huawei’s entire product portfolio, ranging from power electronics to RF components. He oversees and actively participates in several collaborative projects with academic and industrial partners across Europe and Asia.
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• Prof. Odilkhuja Parpiev
  Director of Institute of Materials Science of Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences

  Impact of concentrated solar radiation on oxidized copper ores.

Prof. Odilkhuja Parpiev of Institute of Materials Science of Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences got his PhD (1997) degrees in the Heat Physics Department of Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. From 1998 he has been Head of Department State Committee for Coordination of Science and Technology Development under Cabinet Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He’s responsibilities was Innovation policy and management. The organization and realization of competitions of innovation projects. Development of new technologies in the industry. 2011-2017 he was Executive Director (Chairman) of Committee for Coordination of Science and Technology Development under Cabinet Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Responsibilities: S&T policy and management of Innovation activity. Coordinating and monitoring of performance of the state R&D and Innovation programs. Coordinate International S&T cooperation. Coordinating of activity of the territorial centers for Innovation activity and Technology transfer. Analyze of S&T information. Development of S&T Information network. Select and organizing S&T Information Flows for Business. 2018-2019 he was a Deputy of Chief Engineer of Almalik Mining Company. From 2020 Director of Institute of Materials Science of Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. In recent years, his scientific research has been aimed at studying the possibilities of using concentrated solar energy for processing man-made waste from the mining industry.
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• Dr. Julia Hufenbach
  IFW Dresden, Germany

  TBA

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• Dr. Thomas Konegger
  TBA

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Dr. Thomas Konegger is Associate Professor for Structural Ceramics at the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics at TU Wien. He completed his degree in Technical Chemistry at TU Wien in 2007, before graduating with a doctorate in Technical Sciences from the same university in 2010. After several years of post-doctoral work and a research stay at Clemson University (USA) in the framework of an Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), he received a tenure-track position in “Structural Ceramics” at the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at TU Wien in 2018. In 2022, he completed his habilitation in the field of “Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials” and was appointed Associate Professor of Structural Ceramics in the same year. Dr. Konegger heads the Advanced Ceramics project team within the Inorganic Materials research group at the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics. Furthermore, he is currently serving as vice chairman and secretary of the Austrian Ceramic Society (AuCerS).

Dr. Konegger’s research interests lie in the field of ceramic materials technology, with a focus on the development of new materials and manufacturing processes for applications in the areas of catalysis, energy, and environmental technology. In the recent past, a special research focus has been set on the design of novel porous materials derived from preceramic polymers, employing additive manufacturing and pore templating methods.

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• Rajarshi Banerjee
  Presidential Professor and Regents Professor,
  University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, U.S.A.

  Evolution of the BCC + B2 microstructure and
  its high temperature phase stability in refractory high entropy alloys

Dr. Rajarshi Banerjee is a University Presidential Professor and Regents Professor in the department of materials science and engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT). His primary research focus is on identifying the underlying mechanisms and phase transformations governing microstructural evolution and microstructure-property relationships in complex multi-phase, multi-component materials systems, such as high entropy alloys (HEAs), titanium base alloys, nickel (and cobalt) base superalloys, and magnetic alloys. He also works on additive manufacturing (AM) technologies such as directed energy deposition (DED) and laser powder bed fusion (LPBF), as well as conventional thermo-mechanical processing. The use of advanced characterization techniques, spanning over a range of length scales, including scanning and transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography (APT), constitute a common thread tying his multiple research activities. He has over 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals, total citations exceeding 21,000, and an H-index of 82.
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