Dr. Trond Arne Hassel successfully defended his PhD thesis 28. November 2024. The doctoral work has been carried out at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and SINTEF Manufacturing, with Professor Knut Sørby as the main supervisor, and with Dr. Vegard Brøtan and Dr. Siri Marthe Arbo, from SINTEF Manufacturing, as his co-supervisors.

The SFI PhysMet consortium fall meeting was organised in Trondheim 13.-14. November. Altogether ~55 participants from NTNU, SINTEF, IFE and our industrial partners attended the meeting, which was held at Thon Prinsen Hotel in Trondheim.

On 30 October, NTNU and SINTEF received a visit from Hydro by CEO Eivind Kallevik, technology director Trude Sundset, VP, Company Specialist Christian Rosenkilde and Research Manager Trond Furu. 

Profs. Yanjun Li and Knut Marthinsen participated at the 44th Risø International Symposium at DTU Risø Campus (Roskilde) in Denmark. The topic of this years’ Risø Symposium was Metal Microstructures and Additive Manufacturing.

August 28-29, 2024, The National Conference for Materials Science was organized by the Trøndelag branch of the Norwegian Metallurgical Society, with Professor Marisa Di Sabatino, NTNU as the chairman at Scandic Lerkendal.

June 23-27, 2024

The International Conference on Aluminum Alloys (ICAA) is the world’s leading conference series relating to science and technology of aluminum alloys. It was founded in 1986 and has been organized every second year since then, alternating between Europe, Asia and the American continent. This year conference, ICAA19 was organized in Atlanta, Georgia, US, 23-27 June, with Georgia Institute of Technology and Novelis as the organizers. 

May 26-31, 2024.

Senior researcher Qiang Du from SINTEF, presented results from SFI PhysMet at the 51st International Conference on Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry at Dorint Kongresshotel Mannheim, Germany.

The International CALPHAD Conference was first held in 1973. Since then, it provides to scientists and students with an interest in thermodynamics of materials an opportunity to meet, present and discuss their work in a friendly atmosphere.

24-25. April 2024

SFI PhysMet organised a very successful consortium meeting in Kristiansand. Altogether 55 colleagues from NTNU, SINTEF, IFE and our industrial partners attended the meeting, which was held at Clarion Ernst Hotel in Kristiansand.

14. March 2024

On the 14. March 2024, Professor Equo Kobayashi from Department of Material Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) visited NTNU, Department of Physics and Department of Material Science and Engineering, with Profs. Randi Holmestad and Knut Marthinsen, as hosts. The main purpose of the visit was primarily to sign an AGREEMENT ON STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM between School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology AND The Faculty of Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

February 7th, 2024

Professor Knut Marthinsen participated on 5-6 February at a two-day scientific discussion meeting on Sustainable metals and systems in London UK. The meeting was organised by Professor Julian M Allwood FREng, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cambridge and Professor Dierk Raabe, Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research, and gathered more than 80 experts from around the world, with physical presence or online. The meeting was hosted by the Royal Society, London, and took place in venerable and historic locations in central London, with big paintings of Sir Isac Newton, Ernest Rutherford and Stephen Hawkings on the wall.

January 25th, 2024

Dr. Håkon Wiik Ånes successfully defended his thesis January 25th 2024. Håkon has done his PhD work in the physical metallurgy group at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in a project associated to SFI PhysMet. The topic of Håkon’s presentation at the trial lecture was “Correlated multiscale 3-dimensional structure analysis with X-rays and electrons”. The trial lecture was followed by an excellent presentation of his PhD thesis “Effects of second-phase particles on texture during softening of an Al-Mn alloy investigated by correlative microscopy”.

Professor Knut Marthinsen has been the candidate’s supervisor and Professor Antonius Theodorus Johannes van Helvoort, Department of Physics, has been the candidate’s co-supervisor.