We hereby congratulate PhD candidate Massoud Hassanabadi who got an award for his oral presentation “Characterization of Alumina Based Ceramic Foam Filters (CFFs) by Evaluation of Permeability within the CFF Blocks” at INCAL 2019. Co-authors were Professor Ragnhild E. Aune (NTNU) and Dr. Shahid Akhtar (Hydro). INCAL 2019 (The 7th International Conference & Exhibition on Aluminium) was arranged in the capital city Odisha, Bhubaneswar in India 31st January - 3rd February.

Professor Aune together with Akhtar and Hassanabadi, made the most of their time in India and also arranged a meeting with Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, the Chairman & MD at National Aluminium of India, in order to discuss about the collaboration between NTNU and universities in India.