Prof. Kyle Webber was officially appointed the Head of the Institute of Glass and Ceramics on December 7th, 2021. He has been the interim Head since the retirement of Prof. Peter Greil in March 2020.
Dr. rer. nat. Stephan E. Wolf, Privatdozent and head of an Emmy Noether research group at the Chair of Glass and Ceramics (WW3) of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the FAU Teaching Award.
The FAU awards this prize annually to young scientists who have made out...
Prof. Kyle Webber was recently appointed Editor of the Journal of the European Ceramic Society, which publishes original research in the area of processing, microstructure, and properties of polycrystalline ceramics consolidated at high temperature.
The DFG has awarded the FAU an International Research Training Group "Energy Conversion Systems: From Materials to Devices" IGK2495 (spokesperson: Prof. Kyle Webber). An interdisciplinary team of FAU researchers from the Faculty of Engineering (Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical E...
Fabian Nehr was awarded first place in the Hans-Walter-Hennicke Presentation Competition, which took place at the 94th Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft Conference on May 6th, 2019 at Montanuniversität Leoben. His presentation was entitled "Thermomechanical behavior of NBT as a function of doping", ...
Prof. Webber recently returned from a one week stay in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where he gave a week-long graduate course on "Mechanical properties and failure of ceramic materials" at the Institute of Research in Materials Science and Technology, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. The trip was...
Dr. Barbara Kaeswurm has been awarded funding from the FAU Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI). The ETI promotes excellent postdoctoral researchers, providing them with an opportunity to develop scientific independence and establish themselves in their chosen field of research. Dr. Kaeswurm’s ETI prop...
Prof. Webber received the 2017 IEEE UFFC Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award, which recognizes scientists/engineers for their contributions to fundamental research, integration, application, or education in the area of ferroelectric materials and applications. The award was bestowed "for contrib...
Dr. Neamul Khansur and Prof. Kyle Webber receive the 2016 Edward C. Henry Award, which is given annually to an outstanding paper reporting original work in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society or the Bulletin. Their recent paper "Electric-Field-Induced Domain Switching and Domain Texture Rela...
