Congratulations Dr Azof!
News from 2020
Congratulation to Dr Fabian Imanasa Azof who successfully defended his thesis May 8th. Fabian did an excellent presentation of the trial lecture “Alumina quality, performance and applications: Dependence on ore quality and production process” followed by the presentation of his PhD thesis “Pyrometallurgical and Hydrometallurgical Treatment of Calcium Aluminate-containing Slags for Alumina Recovery”.
Fabian has done an excellent job with his PhD with good academic records, and we are very proud! The Committee was pleased with the quality and content of his thesis, and the way he handled the questions and comments raised during his disputation. SFI Metal Production thanks Fabian for doing high quality research during his PhD periode. Fabian has already started in a new job as Production Manager at Real Alloy in Norway.
The assessment committee has been:
- Associate Professor Lena Sundqvist-Öqvist, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
- Senior Scientist Nancy Jorunn Holt, Hydro Aluminium AS, Norway
- Associate Professor Kristian Etienne Einarsrud, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU
The doctoral work has been carried out at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where Associate Professor Jafar Safarian has been the candidate’s supervisor. Professor Leiv Kolbeinsen and Adjunct Professor Yongxiang Yang at Department of Materials Science and Engineering have been the candidate’s co-supervisors.