Bridging Lectures (Ringvorlesung)

• Provide basic knowledge on the methods and main topics of each research group
• Lecturers are professors and senior scientists of MIMENIMA and guest scientists
• Duration: 2 blocks 12 lectures (3 SWS)

Lecturer:

• Preparation of porous ceramics/ Herstellung von poröser Keramik (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kurosch Rezwan)
• Micropatterning of ceramic surfaces and biotechnological application/ Micropatterning von keramischen Oberflächen und biotechnologische Anwendung (Dr. Laura Treccani)
• Influence of surface characteristics on protein adsorption/ Einfluss von Oberflächeneigenschaften auf die Protein Adsorption (Dr. Laura Treccani)
• Precursor derived ceramics: Processing and adjustable properties/ Prekursorbasierte Keramiken: Herstellung und Eigenschaften (Dr. Michaela Wilhelm)
• Methods of porosity characterization/ Methoden der Porositätscharakterisierung (Dr. Michaela Wilhelm)
• Preparation of nanoparticle systems/ Herstellung nanopartikulärer Systeme (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lutz Mädler)
• Bioinspired mineralization processes for preparing porous ceramic/ Biologisch inspirierte Mineralisationsprozesse zur Herstellung poröser Keramik (Dr. Paulina Kaempfe)
• Characterization of powders and films of nanoparticles/ Charakterisierung von Pulvern und Schichten aus Nanopartikeln (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lutz Mädler)
• Introduction to Rheology/ Einführung zur Rheologie (Prof. Dr. Stefan Odenbach)
• Introduction to X-ray tomography/ Einführung in die Röntgen-Tomographie (Prof. Dr. Stefan Odenbach)
• Basics of NMR tomography and NMR imaging/ Grundlagen der NMR-Tomographie und NMR-spektroskopischen Bildgebung (PD Dr. W. Dreher)
• Characterisation of porous materials and study of hydrodynamics in micro channels using NMR / Charakterisierung poröser Materialien und Untersuchung der Hydrodynamik in Mikrokanälen mittels NMR (PD Dr. Wolfgang Dreher)
• Basics of surface tension and contact angle/ Grundlagen Oberflächenspannung und Randwinkel (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Dreyer)
• Washburn sorption method/ Washburn-Sorption Methode (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Dreyer)
• Inversion of light scatter measurements/ Inversion von Streulichtmessungen (Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wriedt)
• Simulation of light scattering by means of the T-matrix method /Simulation der Lichtstreuung mittels der T-Matrix Methode (Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wriedt)
• Techniques for the simulation of technical systems /Techniken zur Simulation technischer Systeme (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Fritsching)
• Introduction to the homogenization using the finite element method/ Einführung in die Homogenisierung mit der Finite Elemente Methode (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hochrainer)
• Mathematical characterization of stochastic microstructures/ Mathematische Charakterisierung stochastischer Mikrostrukturen (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Hochrainer)
• Dielectrophoresis: theory and application/ Dielektrophorese: Theorie und Anwendung (Dr. Michael Baune)
• Catalysis: Principles and concepts/ Katalyse: Prinzipien und Konzepte (Prof. Dr. Marcus Bäumer)
• Surface chemistry of oxidic materials/ Oberflächenchemie oxidischer Materialien (Prof. Dr. Marcus Bäumer)
• Structure-response relationships between fluid and solid surfaces /Struktur-Wirkungs-Beziehungen zwischen Fluiden und Feststoffoberflächen (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorg Thöming)
• Mass transport and superimposed reactions in porous systems /Stofftransport und überlagerte Reaktionen in porösen Systemen (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorg Thöming)
• Laufende Vertiefung grundlegender Konzepte und Methoden /Ongoing completion of basic concepts and methods (particularly by invitation of female guest scientists)

 

Seminars

Main scientific forum of the training group includes three different types of seminars:

• Meeting of doctoral candidates (1.5 SWS)
• progress reports (1.5 SWS)
• lecture seminar (see “Guest Scientists ..”,
1 SWS)

The meeting of doctoral researchers is a forum for exchanging ideas and giving each other feedback without participance of project leaders or tutors, weekly during semester and in two autonomous doctoral resear-cher workshops.
The Progress Reports include a written and an oral presentation of all candidates on the progress of their research work.
Feedback of plenum/project leaders Tool for quality control, discussion and setting of goals.

Laboratory Courses

 Training of lab methods of each research workgroup in at least 4 courses
„mates teach mates“
 Duration: 1.5 SWS / Lab course

• Preparation of manufacturing ceramic adsorbents with the ionotropic gelation/ Herstellung keramischer Adsorbentien mit der Ionotropen Gelierung
• Preparation of porous ceramics: Direct foaming/ Herstellung poröser Keramik: Direktschäumung
  
• Preparation of porous ceramics: Freeze casting/ Herstellung poröser Keramik: Gefriergelieren
• Methods of porosity characterization/ Methoden der Porositätscharakterisierung
• Particle measurement technology: Laser diffraction method/ Partikelmesstechnik: Beugungspektrometrie
• Spectroscopic measurement of layer thicknesses/ Spektrokopische Schichtdickenmesstechnik
• Digital Imaging and X-ray tomography/ Digitale Bildverarbeitung und Röntgentomographie
• NMR tomography and NMR imaging as a non-invasive methods for the characterization of porous structures/ NMR-Tomographie und NMR-spektroskopische Bildgebung als nicht-invasive Methoden zur Charakterisierung poröser Strukturen
• Dielectrophoresis/ Dielektrophorese
• Rheology/ Rheologie
• Measurement methods for surface tension and contact angle/ Messverfahren für Oberflächenspannung und Randwinkel
• Finite Element Laboratory/ Finite-Elemente-Labor
• Simulation of flows with phase boundaries/ Simulation von Strömungen mit Phasengrenzflächen
• Determination of material transport coefficients for flows in porous systems/ Bestimmung von Stofftransportkoeffizienten bei Strömungen in porösen Systemen
• Methods of catalyst characterization/ Methoden der Katalysatorcharakterisierung

Guest Scientists and Research Visits Abroad

In Lecture seminars national and international speakers present current research issues.
Research visits to international cooperation partners (1- 3 months)

• provides knowledge of new methods and processes
• expand the scientific network and offers new cooperation opportunities

Short selection of guest scientists to be invited:

• Prof. Molly Stevens, (Imperial College), Protein/Material Wechselwirkungen
• Prof. Lynn Gladden, (University of Cambridge), Stofftransportmessungen mittels NMR
• Prof. Dr. Anke Meyer-Baese, (Florida State University), Geometrische Bildinformationen
• Prof. Dr. Nicola Hüsing, (Universität Ulm), Mesostrukturierte Sol-Gel-Materialien
• Dr. Katja Schladitz, (Fraunhofer ITWM), Stochastische Modelle hochporöser Strukturen
• Dr. Claudia Bucharsky, (KIT), Keramikschwämme - Charakterisierung und Beschichtung
• PD Dr.-Ing. Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman, (TU Darmstadt), Mikrostrukturierte Oberflächen
• Prof. Cynthia Friend, (Stanford Linear Accelerator), Eigenschaften von Interphasen
• Prof. Jason Weaver, (Gainesville), Modellkatalytische Studien an SEOs
• Prof. Jörg Kärger / Prof. Roger Gläser, (Universität Leipzig), Stofftransport in porösen Materialien, NMR-Methoden / IRTG: Diffusion in Porous Materials
• Prof. Dr. Alfons Baiker, ETH Zürich, Innovative Katalysatorkonzepte
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Stephan, (TU Darmstadt), Komplexe Wärme- und Stofftransportvorgänge
• Prof. Gian D. Soraru, (Universität Trento), SiOC- und SiC-Keramiken

 

Summer School, Organising a Symposia and Workshops

Summer school:
Getting more in depth knowledge about central research topics: Acquiring knowledge and presenting of theses with relevance for the overall concept of MIMENIMA as well as for the individual work
Duration: 2 days / 1.5 SWS
Structural analysis of porous materials focused on imaging methods

Organising an international symposia:
Discussing own results intensively, planning scientific events, networking and training personnel management skills
Duration: 1.5 SWS
Innovative porous inorganic materials for sustainable applications  + Doctoral reseacher workshops

Workshops:

1. Softskill
• Project and time management
• Good scientific practice
• Scientific writing in Engineering
• Publishing in international journals
• Diversity as chance – Managing Diversity in workaday life
• Presentation skills
• Career planning
2. For Postdocs
• Personnel management
  
• Grant proposal writing
3. Mentoring plan m-
• Carrier development
• Communication and conflict management
• Self-marketing und networking
• Third party funding