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IOM3 President Kate Thornton gives Inaugural Presidential Address

On 29 March Dr Kate Thornton CEng CSci FIMMM gave her Presidential Address highlighting priorities for presidency during her term in office (2023–2024).

Speaking during the Presidential Address, Kate said, 'It is a great honour and privilege to become the President of IOM3. I have had the great fortune to have worked with several past presidents during nearly 15 years of volunteering and I hope to continue the amazing work that they have started. I would like to thank our immediate Past President Neil Glover who has done a brilliant job'.

'One area I am keen to... Read more

Posted by IOM3 - Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining on 31 March 2023

IOM3 welcomes new President Kate Thornton

Dr Kate Thornton CEng CSci FIMMM has taken over as President of IOM3 as of 1 January 2023. Kate will give her Inauguration Address on 29 March highlighting her priorities for presidency during her term in office (2023–2024).

Kate is Lead Research Scientist at Croda where she has been for 12 years, responsible for new product development. Kate studied Engineering in Biomedical Material Science with Industrial Experience, adding a PhD in Biomaterials from the University of Manchester.

Kate first became involved in IOM3 with the then Younger Members' Committee (... Read more

Posted by IOM3 - Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining on 21 March 2023

IOM3 Sustainable Future Awards

Recognising and celebrating those championing sustainability, EDI and the need for greater circularity in the extraction, processing and use of natural resources.

The IOM3 Sustainable Future Awards are a new collection of awards to celebrate our heroes from materials, minerals, mining and associated technical disciplines who are advancing the transition to a low carbon, resource efficient society.

The awards provide an opportunity for individuals and organisations to showcase projects and initiatives focused on these goals across six awards categories. The awards will... Read more

Posted by IOM3 - Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining on 21 March 2023

RubberCon 2023 programme announced

The full programme for both event days is released with discounted early bird tickets available.

IOM3 saw a last minute rush on the call for papers deadline which passed 16 December 2022. In total the organising committee accepted 80 oral papers, these included the plenary sessions, committee-invited papers and sponsors’ papers. A further 64 poster papers were also accepted.

Discounted tickets for RubberCon 2023 are available, but for a limited time only. Tickets for IOM3 members, IRCO members and non-members are available at a discount of 20%. To take advantage of this... Read more

Posted by IOM3 - Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining on 21 March 2023

FINAL EXTENSION OF ABSTRACT SUBMISSION for FEMS EUROMAT 2023

FEMS EUROMAT is the premier international congress in the field of materials science and technology in Europe. This conference will continue a successful series of material science conferences. The main objective is to foster knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences amongst delegates with academic and industrial backgrounds. FEMS EUROMAT 2023 will take place in Frankfurt, Germany (3-7 September).

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Posted by Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) on 7 March 2023

FEMS EUROMAT 2023 - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED

FEMS EUROMAT is the premier... Read more

Posted by Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) on 6 February 2023

Deadline for nominations extended for 2023 FEMS Awards

FEMS is pleased to announce that the deadline for the... Read more

Posted by Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) on 6 February 2023

Review of SPM 2022 Activities

During 2022, SPM (Portuguese Materials Society), organized or co-organized a number of meetings and enhanced the work done by their Technical Divisions.

18 January: Online conference dedicated to Biomaterials. In the same week, the SPM Materials for Energy Division renewed its coordination with Filipe Neves (LNEG) e Pedro Salomé (INL).

26 January: 'Research in Materials in the scope of ERC grants' online conference series, Cecília Roque presented on 'Seeing the unseen with designed functional materials'.

16 March: 'Research in Materials in... Read more

Posted by SPM - Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais on 21 December 2022

SOCIEMAT celebrates 2022 European Materials Day 2022

As in previous years, SOCIEMAT joined other member societies of FEMS to celebrate European Materials Day. The main event was held at the Polytechnic University of Madrid on 2 November. Members of SOCIEMAT also organized events in Seville and Ciudad Real, and a contest of Materials threads was carried out on Twitter.

During the event the following talks were given by materials experts:

  • 'Toca toca Materiales' - Prof Nuria Salan, UPC
  • 'Bienvenido a MATERLAND' - Prof Gloria Rodríguez, UCLM

During the event, the... Read more

Posted by SOCIEMAT - Sociedad Española de Materiales on 4 November 2022

Cláudia Ranito awarded with Maria Manuela Oliveira Prize

The recognition of excellence in technological innovation and scientific research in the area of ​​Materials is part of the mission of the Portuguese Materials Society (SPM). In this context, the SPM Board of Directors established in May 2019 the Maria Manuela Oliveira Award, with the aim of highlighting the crucial role that women play in research, development, innovation and technology and teaching transfer activities, in the area of ​​Materials. in Portugal. The Maria Manuela Oliveira Award also aims to promote gender equality in these activities. Maria Manuela Oliveira is an Engineer and... Read more
Posted by SPM - Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais on 4 November 2022

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