Speakers

Prof Nikolaos Alexopoulos

Research interests of Dr. Alexopoulos lies within the sector of experimental mechanics, mechanical behavior of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, casting of aluminum alloys, corrosion susceptibility of metallic materials, nanomaterials, and nanocomposites. He has published more than 60 papers in scientific journals, presented more than 150 papers in conference proceedings and currently has a Hirsch-index = 23 (Scopus, without self-citations). He has participated in more than 20 National and European research projects, while he is an elected member of Board of Directors of the Greek Society of Experimental Mechanics of Materials (GSEMM) as well as of the EURopean ASsociation for Experimental Mechanics (EURASEM)

Prof Indradev Samajdar

Prof Indradev Samajdar has research interests in Crystallographic Texture, Microstructural Engineering and Thermomechanical Processing. He has publications in around 250 peer-reviewed journals and a textbook. In addition to having numerous awards and recognitions, he also holds the position of Adjunct Professor: at Monash University. Prof. Samajdar has 36 PhD who have completed under him, with 10 current PhD students.

Prof. Stefan Zaefferer

Stefan Zaefferer studied physical metallurgy and metal physics at the Technical University Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, in the famous texture lab headed by Prof. H.J. Bunge. He then spend three years as a researcher at the University Paris XII in Paris, and two years at Kyoto University. Since 2000 he leads the group “Microscopy and Diffraction” at the Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf, Germany, and is a lecturer for materials characterization at RWTH Aachen University. He also teaches regularly at Vienna University. Dr. Zaefferer was involved with the development and application of techniques for individual orientation determination and lattice defect characterization. Besides the development of diffraction techniques his research interests are the mechanisms of microstructure formation in metals and other materials, including deformation, recrystallization and phase transformation. Stefan Zaefferer is author or co-author of about 150 journal papers. He is co-author together with Olaf Engler and Valerie Randle of the 3rd edition of the book “Introduction to Texture Analysis” published in 2024"

Prof. Juergen Hirsch:

Prof. J. Hirsch undertakes general consulting on aluminium including but not limited to its science, processing and application. He is a material scientist and expert in aluminium fundamentals, production, processing (incl. simulation) and application (automotive and others). He gives tutorials (to both technical and non-technical audiences alike) and teaches Aluminium and technology at the technical university (RWTH) Aachen and TU Dortmund. He boasts an h-index of 30 with over 7,416 citations.

Prof. Elena Pereloma

After conferring the PhD in 1987, Elena Pereloma worked as researcher and academic in Ukraine, Canada and Australia. She is currently Professor of Physical Metallurgy in the School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wollongong. Her major research interests are in processing-microstructure-property relationships, alloy design, thermo-mechanical processing, phase transformations, mechanical behavior and advanced characterization techniques. She has successfully supervised 20 PhDs and is currently supervising 2 PhD students. Prof has over 250 publications and an h-index of 49