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Herman Terryn, part-time professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, will receive the ‘H.H. Uhlig corrosion award’ on 3 October for his pioneering research on the corrosion of metals. Preventing corrosion is extremely important because corrosion causes huge economic damage. The award will be presented during a conference of the Electrochemical Society in National Harbor (Washington , DC).

Recently Fritz Körmann, researcher at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering received a Vidi for his research: ‘How to mix the perfect high entropy alloy cocktail?’ This week his research 'Phonon broadening in high entropy alloys’ has been published in Nature Computional Materials.

A unique scientific partnership was created for the new winter exhibition ‘Nineveh’ at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, the Netherlands. Various international scientific teams worked on the reconstruction of one of the most beautiful structures in the Near East: the palace of Assyrian King Sennacherib.

On June 30, the first student Vehicle Engineering graduated on side-slips in autonomous cars.