Invited Speakers

Silvère Akamatsu
Sorbonne Universitè, France

As a senior researcher (CNRS), I conduct my research at Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (INSP), Sorbonne University, Paris, France. My main field of investigation is the formation dynamics of solidification patterns by in situ experimentation, using model transparent and metallic alloys, mostly in thin samples. The fundamental motivation is to address complex microstructure selection problems of strong impact in materials science, under the light of the nonlinear physics of nonequilbrium pattern forming systems. Current focus is on lamellar and rod-like eutectics in isotropic/anisotropic systems, combining real-time optical observation methods and crystallographic analysis. I work in collaboration with metallurgists, experimentalist physicists, and theoreticians with a strong expertise in numerical simulations.

Tyson Back
Air Force Research Laboratory, USA

Research involves the development of next generation cathode and anode materials for use in high power vacuum electronic applications.  A wide variety of surface analysis methods are being utilized to evaluate fundamental electron emission mechanisms associated with candidate materials such as directionally solidified eutectics.   Recently, we have begun to employ emission microscopy methods to observe the electron emission process in real time.  With emission microscopy, electron emission can be imaged at nanometer scales under various temperatures and electric fields, which more closely represent the true behavior of a working cathode. 

Abhik Choudhury
Indian Institute of Science, India

My research typically focuses on understanding pattern formation during phase transformations such as solidification and precipitation using a combination of controlled experiments and phase-field modeling. In particular, our group has focussed on binary/multicomponent eutectic reactions. We utilize an in-house fabricated modified Bridgman furnace for conducting experiments and state-of-the-art phase-field models for modeling microstructure evolution. In addition, our group works on phase-field model developments for other phenomena, such as electromigration and corrosion. The present funded research in my group is related to aspects of single-crystal growth of superalloys using classical directional solidification and additive manufacturing. Finally, our group is part of a consortium involved in developing an open-source phase-field software MicroSim.

Jianrong Gao
Northeastern University, China

Prof. Gao is interested in theory and in situ diagnosis of non-equilibrium solidification of metallic materials under extreme conditions. His group uses high-speed optical imaging to investigate crystal growth kinetics and thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamic flow effect during rapid solidification of pure metals, binary and multicomponent alloys at high undercoolings and high magnetic fields. His group also uses synchrotron X-rays to investigate in situ phase transformation behavior of structural and functional materials towards an understanding of metastable microstructure formation and complex structure-property relationship.

Sheng Guo
Chalmers University, Sweden

Sheng Guo’s current research interests are with physical metallurgy of high entropy alloys (HEAs), also known as compositionally complex alloys (CCAs).  At the moment, he mainly works on two types of HEAs, eutectic HEAs (EHEAs) and refractory HEAs (RHEAs), both for structural applications. He is also getting into the field of additive manufacturing (AM), using AM not only as a new processing route, but also as a way to tune the micro-structure and phase constitutions.

Ulrike Hecht
Access e.V., Germany

My research interests focus on alloy design, microstructure formation and material properties for cast and additively manufactured metallic materials. Multiphase materials, including eutectics, are at the very core of my research activities, also including high entropy alloys with dual-phase or eutectic microstructure. Crystallographic aspects, spanning from crystal orientation relationships to texture evolution and manipulation are my favorite topics.

Hani Henein
University of Alberta, Canada

With respect to Eutectics, my research interests is to study their formation under rapid solidification conditions (100 to 10^6 K/s) and to subsequently characterize them quantitatively.

Andreas Ludwig
University of Leoben, Austria

Andreas Ludwig studied Physics at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany, obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 at the RWTH Aachen, Germany and a habilitation on Material Physics in 1999 also at the RWTH Aachen. In 1993/1994 he was scholar of the German Science Foundation at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2003 he became full Professor and head of the chair of ‘Simulation and Modelling of Metallurgical Processes’, Department Metallurgy, Montanuniversity Leoben, Austria. From 2009 to 2021, he was board member auf the Austrian Committee of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. Since 2014, he acts as board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) responsible for ‘Engineering Technology’ and now ‘Material Science’. Andreas published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers most in the field of ‘modelling solidification at an industrial length scale’. The database SCOPUS reveals that Andreas is the world-leading scientist with regards of publications on macrosegregation (since Spring 2013). In the last years, his focus also comprises magnetohydrodynamics in metal processing, as well as peritectic solidification under microgravity conditions.

Necmettin Marasli
Istanbul Gelisim University, Turkey

His research interest includes the directional solidification, solid-liquid interfacial energy measurements, variation of thermal and electrical conductivities with temperature measurements and dependence of mechanical and thermos physical properties on growth rates in the multicomponent metallic and transparent organic alloys. Recently he is studying the eutectic growth of alloys with uniform high static electrical fields and dependence of microstructures and mechanical properties on magnitudes and directions of static electric fields in the multicomponent metallic alloys. 

Samuel Marlin
Saint Gobain, France

Dr Samuel Marlin currently serves as R&D Director of the ZIRPRO Division and Growth Projects in the Ceramic Materials Branch of Saint-Gobain. His field of expertise includes zirconia based ceramics, materials for abrasives or refractory applications made through electrofusion and sol-gel processes, powders for thermal spray coatings, hexagonal BN, slurries for fine polishing and materials for conductive ceramics (SOFC, SOEC). His PhD thesis was specifically on the subject of fused Al2O3-ZrO2 eutectics for abrasives and he participated to the development of several Saint-Gobain materials within the SGP Division portfolio. He co-authored and filed 38 patents.

Amit Misra
University of Michigan, USA

Research interests:
Laser rapid solidification of metallic eutectics;
Nanomechanical behavior, in situ electron microscopy and dislocation mechanisms of plasticity in metallic eutectic microstructures

Dorota Anna Pawlak
ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence, Poland

Prof. Dorota A. Pawlak (DAP) is the president of the newly established Centre of Excellence for nanophotonics, advanced materials and novel crystal growth-based technologies, ENSEMBLE3 in Warsaw, Poland (www.ensemble3.eu). She leads the Functional Materials Technology group which works on new materials with special optical properties and potential applications in such fields as photonics, optoelectronics, medicine and photoelectrochemistry. DAP proposed utilization of crystal growth and eutectic solidification as metamaterials and plasmonic materials, as well as electrodes in photoelectrochemical water splitting and topological insulator heterostructures. Together with her group they invented a direct method for producing volumetric glasses doped with various nanoparticles including plasmonic ones and quantum dots, Nanoparticles Direct Doping. She is a laureate of highly competitive projects: Teaming for Excellence by the European Commission, International Research Agenda Programme and TEAM projects by the Foundation for Polish Science, and Maestro project from the National Science Centre in Poland. DAP is also the president-elect of the Polish Society for Crystal Growth.

Tamas Pusztai
Wigner Institute of Physics, Hungary

Tamás Pusztai works in the field of computational materials science. His main interest is developing and using phase-field models for solidification phenomena. This includes simple models for homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation, orientation-field models for polycrystalline growth and grain coarsening, and multi-phase-field models for pattern formation in eutectic and peritectic systems.

Oriane Senninger
MINES ParisTech I PSL University, France

Oriane Senninger is a researcher specialized in the analysis of dendritic and eutectic microstructures at the scale of the grain. Among other numerical activities, she follows the steps of Jackson and Hunt by developing pseudo-analytical models coupled with thermodynamic databases to determine scales of eutectic patterns in constrained growth. One of the objectives of such studies is to analyze pattern selection depending on growth conditions. 

Haijun Su
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Main research interests are (1) Directional solidification technology and theory (2) Laser addictive manufacturing (3) Ultra-high temperature Oxide eutectic ceramics.