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Welcoming Berk, Kyung-Shik, Felicity, & nice weather with a tradition: competition of the offices! Hobbiton finally breaks Yellow-Office's win streak. Then, our UROPs Jasmine & Lauryn got their team out of the Escape Room way faster than the team of post-docs and ahem, the prof.

Note 3 new PIs starting their groups! Ben will be a Lecturer in the Dept. of Mech. Eng. at University of Southampton 오현석 will join the faculty of the Dept. of Mat. Science & Eng. UW–Madison @TaheriMousavi will join the faculty of the Dept. of Mat. Science & Eng. Carnegie Mellon University

New PhDs: Dr. Haoxue Yan & Dr. Jiyun Kang! Had so much fun learning about micro-strain localization, and H effects on dislocations, with these amazing scientists. Haoxue is now a post-doc with Prof. Kunal Mukherjee at Stanford University. Jiyun will stay with us a bit more. Congrats again!

Saying farewell, with very mixed feelings, to Dr. Hyunseok Oh (오현석), who joins the MSE department at UW-Madison as an Assistant Professor, and to Dr. Jiyun Kang, who joins Wendy Gu at Stanford as a post-doc. May the force be with them!

Now it is time to say farewell to Dr. Shaolou Wei - not only a brilliant mind/scientist, but also a great team member, friend, role model… Viel Glück Shaolou!

Who cares about the rain – it was great fun to bring the entire team and to reunite with alumni at #TMS2023!

Doesn't get any better than the commencement! Proudest moments as we formally celebrate our new PhDs... MIT Commencement Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) DMSE at MIT

Talking about good news and proud moments, here is another one: our wonderful post-doc Dr. Michela Geri just landed a well deserved tenure-track faculty position in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science of Duke University! Wow! Congrats Michela!

We've just said farewell to Dr. Felicity Worsnop, who received the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to continue out her amazing research in Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung! Congratulations again Felicity, and thanks for everything 🤠

A proud moment: our post-doc Dr. Prafull Pandey is leaving the group to join IIT Gandhinagar IIT Gandhinagar as an Assistant Professor! Prafull did his PhD with Prof. Kamanio Chattopadhyay, and has demonstrated all kinds of magic as a post-doc here in alloy design. Thanks Prafull for all!

Important times – this semester we were able to welcome six new grad students in our group: Future is so bright with Alex, Can, Minho, Berk, Abhi and You Na!

With lots of laughter, pizza, speeches & gifts, we have said farewell to Michela (well, now Prof. Geri!). Follow her magic in Duke: dmi.duke.edu/about/faculty/…

Some great news! 1) Felicity will be joining the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial, as a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, to start her own research group on materials degradation / characterization for nuclear power! Congrats Dr. Worsnop!

2) Jiyun has accepted a faculty position in the Materials Science & Engineering Department of University of California Berkeley Berkeley MSE UC Berkeley! What an amazing achievement from Dr. Kang (who is about to be Prof. Kang).

3) ...And congrats to our past & present undergraduate researchers for landing wonderful new positions! Lucas Marden -> Scientist Outokumpu Sierra Green -> PhD in MSE at Carnegie Mellon University Lauryn Kortman -> PhD in Nuclear eng. at Michigan Kirmina Monir -> PhD in MSE at UCSB

I have important news: MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE at MIT) has an opening for a tenure-track faculty member in metallurgy: faculty-searches.mit.edu/soe/dmse-metal/ This is a rare and exciting moment – check it out!

Two new graduate students have joined our team this semester! Welcome Liang and Ekin! Future is ☀️☀️☀️

The 8th Alloy Design workshop is on Dec 6th (last day of MRS) titled "Metals and life: Biocompatibility, biocorrosion, oligodynamic effect and beyond" Line-up is exciting: rb.gy/lnmuhn Registration (zoom / in-person) is free: rb.gy/l9u2i7 Check it out!

A new PhD in town: meet Dr. Julian Rackwitz! But seriously: How often do you hear about vibrations, partial dislocations and bacteria in a single PhD defense? Thanks to my colleague Prof. Greg Olson for the co-supervision of this young superstar!

Nothing beats the graduation! So very proud of our graduates Julian Rackwitz and Megan Cooper! Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)commencement @MIT DMSE at MIT