Various awards to LMPT group members in 2023

Andrea Rich attended the external page 33^rd Int. Conf. on Bioceramics in Solothurn, Switzerland (Oct. 17-20, 2023), and was awarded the Best Presentation Prize for her talk entitled “Amorphous magnesium-fiber reinforced bone cement shows enhanced mechanical and biocompatible properties.”  

Dr. Indranil Basu attended the Joint external page RQ17 & ISMANAM 27 conference in Warsaw, Poland (60 years of metallic glasses, Aug. 20-25, 2023), and received the International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous, and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM) Early-Career Scientist Award. Indranil works primarily on the physical metallurgy of lean Mg alloys and the additive manufacturing of metallic multi-materials.

Tatiana Akhmetshina attended the external page 15th Biometal Conference in Cetraro, Italy (Aug. 21-27, 2023), and was awarded a Poster Prize (first place) for her work entitled “Insights into Mg degradation with X-ray ptychographic computed tomography.” Tatiana also presented her poster in a short oral talk at the conference, and impressed the committee so much that she was additionally bestowed with an Oral Presentation Award.

Tatiana Akhmetshina was also awarded a MaP Poster Prize at the Materials and Processes (MaP) Graduate Symposium 2023 that took place on June 22, 2023 at ETH Zurich, for her work entitled “Magnesium Corrosion & Lessons from High-Resolution 3D Data”.