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Dierk Raabe receives NIMS Award 2023
Dierk Raabe has been honoured for his outstanding achievements on sustainable metallurgy and advanced alloy design by Japanese National Institute for Materials Science .
By Yasmin Ahmed Salemby , MPIE
Prof . Dierk Raabe , director at the Max- Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung ( MPIE ), has received the NIMS Award 2023 by the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science ( NIMS ). The award recognizes his outstanding achievements pioneering research on the sustainable and microstructurebased design of advanced metallic alloys . The award ceremony and honorary lecture took place on 6th November during the NIMS Award Symposium 2023 in Tsukuba , Japan . “ I am delighted and deeply honoured to receive this recognition from the international community for my dedication to sustainable metallurgy . This award , coupled with the engaging discussions at the NIMS conference , reaffirm the direction of my research . Fundamental research plays a pivotal role in achieving our climate objectives and making a tangible impact on climate change and the required global industrial transformation ”, states Raabe .
Advancing frontiers At MPIE , Raabe and his colleagues are committed to advancing the frontiers of sustainable materials science and digitalization . Their work encompasses various domains , such as reducing carbon emissions by employing hydrogen and ammonia in steel production , developing more efficient catalysts for green hydrogen production , developing alloys made from scrap that tolerate higher impurity contents , balancing electrons and hydrogen as reductants in plasma metallurgy , designing rareearth-free and recycled magnets for electrification , and increasing the recycling rates of complex alloys to further the goal of a circular economy . Their research involves cutting-edge experiments and simulations down to the electronic structure scale and integrates artificial intelligence techniques . The NIMS Award honours exceptional researchers who have made groundbreaking contributions to the field of materials science and technology . Since 2007 , nominees have been selected annually by world-leading scientists and chosen by the NIMS award committee . The laureates are selected from the four major research topics of NIMS in turn every year :
Prof . Dierk Raabe , director at the Max- Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf ( Germany ), received the NIMS Award 2023 by the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science ( NIMS ). Copyright : © Thor Nielsen , NTNU
•• materials for environment and energy ,
•• functional materials ,
•• structural materials , and
•• basic materials science . This year ’ s award acknowledged outstanding achievements in the realm of structural materials through fundamental research .