Hallo Freunde der Wissenschaft! Vom 23. bis 25. August 2023 fand die "2023 International Conference on Secondary Refining and Inclusion Controlling" statt, bei der Prof. Menghuai Wu, Kathrin Thiele und Julian Cejka teilnahmen. Die Teilnehmerin und Teilnehmer des Departments Metallurgie haben dabei folgende drei Vorträge präsentiert: "Understanding nonmetallic inclusion behavior in SEN clogging – a [...]
Over the summer, Joanna Popiel from Ghent University, Belgium, interned for six weeks at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Inclusion Metallurgy in Advanced Steelmaking as part of the IAESTE program. Under the guidance of Dr. Shashank Ramesh Babu, Joanna focused on leveraging data science and machine learning techniques to enhance the prediction of inclusion classes [...]
Dear All! Within the Steelmaking and Casting knowledge group of the R&D Ironmaking, Steelmaking & Casting department we are looking for a researcher in the field of ladle metallurgy and clean steel production. You will strengthen a growing internationally oriented team of steelmaking and continuous casting specialists, and will work in multidisciplinary projects to improve [...]
Hallo Freunde der Wissenschaft! Am 22. Juni 2023 fand endlich wieder das lang ersehnte Sommerfest der Metallurgiestudent:innen statt, und zwar im Radwerk IV in Vordernberg! ☀️ 🎉 Eine tolle Veranstaltung begleitet von einer leckeren Grillerei 🍽️, Bier,🍻 angeregter Gespräche und großartiger Musik 🎶 🎺 . Doch nicht nur das: Wir nutzten auch die [...]
Andreas Pfeiffer has been honoured with the Willy Korf Young Excellence Award for his work for his PhD thesis at the Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy, Montanuniversität Leoben. He received this award on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, during the Global Steel Dynamics Forum #GSDF2023 held in New York City. At the award ceremony, Andreas had the [...]
Michael Bernhard and Peter Presoly participated in the 50th International Conference on Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry (CALPHAD) from June 25-30. The conference was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston (MA, US). Michael Bernhard gave a lecture on new results from his stay abroad at the Graduate Institute of [...]
Mit 1. Oktober wird Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Michelic den Lehrstuhl für Eisen- und Stahlmetallurgie übernehmen. Damit ist sie die erste Frau, die diesem „Gründungslehrstuhl“ der Montanuniversität Leoben vorsteht. Mit 1. Juli übernimmt sie die wissenschaftliche Geschäftsführung des Kompetenzzentrums K1-MET. Bedeutsamer Lehrstuhl Mit der „Lehrkanzel für Hüttenkunde“ startete 1840 die Steiermärkisch-Ständische Montanlehranstalt, der Lehrstuhl für [...]
From June 19 - 21, Prof. Youn-Bae Kang visited the Department of Ferrous Metallurgy. He is the head of the Clean Steel Laboratory at the Graduate Insitute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT) of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). There is a long-standing cooperation between the two institutes in the field of continuous casting, inclusion [...]
As a welcome change from the daily university routine, an excursion to voestalpine Stahl Linz was on the agenda during the laboratory exercises on "Steel Metallurgy - Processes". The students were given exclusive insights into the field of reduction metallurgy, with the focus on the following areas: - Coke plant - Sintering plant - R&D [...]
