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The seminar entitled "Beyond limits: cutting-edge materials for the final frontier" will be held by Professor Marek Dollar on 23 October at 12pm.

Participation

• online (MS Teams)
• in person: Building C-6, room 501

Beyond limits: cutting-edge materials for the final frontier

The focus of the seminar is on ground-breaking structural materials, engineered to perform multiple functions under heavy mechanical loads and extreme temperatures, as well as in space specific environments (vacuum, radiation, atmospheric re-entry). An overview of different classes of materials, including, but not limited to, refractory metals, ultra-high temperature ceramics, carbon-carbon composites and high entropy alloys will be presented.

About the speaker

Professor Marek Dollar began his academic journey at the AGH University of Krakow (MSc, PhD, DSc degrees, and the Belvedere professorship). After a 40-years-long research, teaching and academic leadership career in the US, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (as Visiting Faculty), Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (as Professor and Inaugural Chairman of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Department) and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (as Prorector and Founding Dean of its College of Engineering & Computing), he has returned to his Alma Mater to join the Faculty of Space Technologies.

Professor Dollar has an outstanding record of research accomplishments in the area of materials science & engineering and he is arguably best known for his contributions to our understanding of structure–property relationships in high temperature structural materials for aerospace applications. His still evolving research interests include now cutting-edge, ultra-high temperature, multifunctional materials for extreme conditions in outer space.