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A team of delegations from the Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research (IMN) made its mark at the European Microscopy Congress (EMC 2024), one of the world's largest and most prestigious microscopy exhibitions from 25-30. August 2024. Held every four years, EMC combines advancements in microsc...

Two members of the Tomo-Group, Alexander Götz and Dr. Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, represented the Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research (IMN) at the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy (XRM 2024), which took place in Lund, Sweden, from August 12-16, 2024. The conference brought tog...

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Ashton Egan, a distinguished researcher from Ohio State University, as a Humboldt Research Fellow. Dr. Ashton Egan brings a wealth of expertise in nickel and cobalt-based superalloys, and electron microscopy. He joins us from The Ohio State University and the Center f...

The WW9 running enthusiasts Running Flamingos welcomed spring by participating in several running competitions. The first one was the traditional Winterwaldlauf in Erlangen on March 16 with a distance of 10 km. Even the rather unstable weather conditions could not dampen the team spirit and enthusia...

We warmly welcome Prof. Philipp Pelz, who started his professorship for Computational Materials Microscopy at the IMN in August this year.   Before joining the IMN, he was a postdoctoral researcher working on computational electron microscopy with Prof. Mary Scott in the Materials Science...

At the summer festival of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, several prices of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering were awarded to outstanding BSc and PhD theses conducted at the IMN:   1. BSc Award: BSc Julian Kauth (Nanotechnology BSc) Title of thesis...

We are proud that the Alumni Symposium & Reunion of AG Electron Microscopy & Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research took place on 24th June 2022 and that so many alumni participated and made it a memorable event. Erdmann Spiecker and Mingjian Wu presented 14 years of Materials Micros...

The PhD defence of Mr. Janis Wirth took place on 22. Dec. 2021, partly virtual (online) due to the current regulations. With his comprehensive work “Scale-bridging correlative 3D microscopy methods to unravel the complex 3D microstructure of porous materials“, he has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing. ...

The PhD defence of Ms. Dorota Kubacka took place on 17. Dec. 2021, partly virtual (online) due to the current regulations. With her dedicated work “Diffusion Processes in Compositionally Complex SX Ni- and Co-base Superalloys“, she has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing with distinction. Congratulations...

The PhD defence of Ms. Lilian Vogl took place on 2. Dec. 2021, partly virtual (online) due to the current conditions. With her comprehensive work “Functional Nanowires Studied with Correlative in situ Light and Electron Microscopy", she has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing with distinction. Lil...