EPMA Fellowship Award

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  Prof Francisco Castro

  After receiving a Bsc. Degree in Physics from the University of México and an Msc. and PhD in 1985 from the University of Sheffield, UK, he was awarded the ‘Brunton Medal’ in Metallurgical Research from the same University. Since 1985 he has been the Director of Powder Metallurgy Area at CEIT and Lecturer of Materials Science at The School of Engineering of the University of Navarra in San Sebastian and since 2016 the Director of Materials and Manufacturing Division at the same institution.

  The co-founder of three spin off companies for the manufacturing of metal powders and powder components and a Member of EPMA, APMI as well as of the National Agency for Project Evaluation in Spain. In 2010 he received the ‘Distinguished Service Award 2010’ from EPMA and was co-chair of Euro PM2011 the following year. He has published more than 200 papers between international congresses and technical magazines. Supervised two master theses, several final year projects and 27 PhD theses one of which merited the ‘Schunk Prize’ for Outstanding Developments in Powder Metallurgy.

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  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Broeckmann

  Professor Doctor Ingenieur Broeckmann began his career Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany studying Mechanical Engineering before he went onto work at the Institute of Materials Science at Bochum for ten years. Shortly after he got his PhD on a thesis on the fracture of carbide rich steels before working at Köppern GmbH&Co. KG he then became Managing Director at Köppern Entwicklungs GmbH. In 2008, he joined RWTH Aachen University as a professor and since 2009, he is head of the institute for materials application in mechanical engineering (IWM).

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  Prof Dr José Manuel Torralba

  Prof Dr Torralba is the Director-General for Universities and Research of Madrid Regional Government. He has published more than 450 scientific papers and supervised 26 PhD thesis and 80 Diploma Thesis.

  Prof Dr Torralba has participated in more than 70 international scientific committees of International Conferences, being Chairman of 7 of them and has been involved in 35 competitive projects. He is Regional Editor (for Europe) of Journal of Materials Processing Technology and Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering as well as Editor in Chief (co-editor) of Powder Metallurgy.

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  Prof. Alberto Molinari

  As a full professor of Metallurgy within the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento; Head of the Mechanical Design and Metallurgy group since 1990; Head of Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies; vice Rector for Personnel Affairs and Collective Bargaining, and for Relations with Enterprises. He is author of about 470 publications on international and national journals and Conference proceedings and two patents. Founder of the K4Sint, start-up of Trento University dedicated to product development with SPS. He has received an Honorary Award from Cracow Technical University and Doctor Honoris Causa Award from Universidad Carlos III Madrid. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Padua and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from Torino Polytechnic. He was Chairman of PM2010 World Congress, Florence, Italy; is the Coordinator of EPMAs EPMI group; member of the Technical Program Committee of several Euro PM Congress, member of the International Steering Committee for World PM2016 Congress; Teacher at EPMA Summer School and Young Engineers Day and is currently President of the Powder Metallurgy Committee of Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia.

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  Prof Paul Beiss

  Professor Paul Beiss is a Graduate of Mechanical Engineering, who studied at RWTH Aachen with a focus on production engineering until 1972. His Doctoral thesis was on extrusion of copper. He made a change to become professor for metallic materials in mechanical engineering RWTH Aachen in 1994. He is a Fellow of the American Powder Metallurgy Institute. He has been active with the EPMA since 2004, he is active with the EPMA EuroPress&Sinter sectoral group and the RET working group.

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  Prof Dr Herbert Danninger

  Professor Herbert Danninger is a Graduate in Chemical engineering, which he achieved in 1979. His Doctoral thesis was completed at the Institute for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials, entitled “Influence of the Manufacturing Parameters on the Properties of Tungsten Heavy Alloys” was completed in 1980. He was appointed as a Full Professor for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials in 2003. In January 2016 he was awarded the Doctor honoris causa of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. He has been active with the EPMA since 2004, he is active with the EPMA EuroHIP, EuroMIM, EuroAM, EuroHM sectoral groups and the EPMI working group. He is also editor for the Journal of Powder Metallurgy, which is the official journal of the EPMA.

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  Prof Dr Elena Gordo

  Prof. Dr Elena Gordo holds a degree in Mining Engineering and a PhD in Materials Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain). She is currently Full Professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid, where she is responsible of the Group of Powder Technology. She has 25 years of experience in teaching and research, with appointments at the National Center for Metallurgical Research (Spain), the University of Nottingham (UK), London & Scandinavian Metallurgical Co (UK), the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Queensland (Australia). She counts on over 100 publications in journals indexed in SCI, being her main research lines currently related with the design and production of alternative compositions for hard materials industry, low –cost PM Ti alloys, preparation of powders for additive manufacturing, among others.

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  Prof Dr-Ing Frank Petzoldt

  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzoldt studied physics and received his doctoral degree from Technical University Clausthal in Germany. He is working with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Bremen since 1984 in different job positions. In 1993 he became Head of the Powder Technology Department, and in 1999 he was appointed Deputy Director of Fraunhofer IFAM. Prof. Dr. Petzoldt has well over 100 publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He is lecturer both at the University of Bremen and the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven and has been appointed to professorship in 2013

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  Prof Didier Bouvard
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  Prof Lars Nyborg
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  Prof Luis Llanes Pitarch

  Luis Llanes, born in 1965, holds Bachelor and Master degrees from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) as well as a PhD degree from University of Pennsylvania (USA). Since 1992 he has been affiliated at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), insitution where he became a Full Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in 2003. He has been Chairman of his Department, Dean of the Barcelona-East School of Engineering (EEBE) and Director of Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC School). Prof. Llanes has concentrated on the field of mechanical behavior of metallic, ceramic and composite materials, especially addressing structural integrity (fracture, fatigue and contact load response), micromechanics and reliability under service-like conditions.
  In the last two decades, his efforts have focused on microstructural design optimization of hard materials (hardmetals, cermets, PCD and PcBN), through mechanical integrity assessment along a wide range of length scales. Prof. Llanes is co-author of more than 150 papers published in top journals in these fields. In addition, he has a track-record of technology transfer and consultancy with hard materials industries. He is Co-Chair of EPMA’s European Hard Materials Group, Associated Editor of the International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, and member of the Editorial Board of Ceramics International. Finally, Prof. Llanes has been Co-Chairman of the last five International Conferences on the Science of Hard Materials (ICSHM).

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  Prof. Dr.-ing Thomas Weißgärber

  Thomas Weißgärber, born on March 19th,1969, studied materials science at the Technical University Dresden and received his PhD in powder metallurgy in 1997 (Manufacturing, Microstructure and Properties of Dispersion Strengthened Copper Alloys, rating: summa cum laude). He has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Dresden since 1997. Throughout his career at the institute, he has held various positions from research associate to group and department head, and finally deputy director of the institute. In 2019, he has taken over the provisional management as institute director of Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden with responsibility for more than 100 employees. Currently, he holds a call for a professorship in powder metallurgy at TU Dresden.