The Annual FactSage workshop in Korea was also held on Feb. 1~3 with more than 120 participants on-site and 150 participants online. This annual Korean workshop has continued since 2005 and has educated more than 1100 students and researchers.

 

Since January 2023, Dr. Marie-Aline Van Ende has joined the research group Power and Flow at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Eindhoven, The Netherlands – www.tue.nl/power-flow) as a part-time Associate Professor. She will be working on the metal fuel cycle as CO2 -free energy carrier and developing other research topics related to high-temperature metallurgy.

 

Yoongu Kang, Joonhyun Nam, Jeong-Min Cheon got the awards in the CALPHAD 50 conference in 25-30 June, 2023 in Boston, USA.

STT Hillert Grant was awarded to Yoongu and Joonhyun, and Jeong-Min was awarded the Larry Kaufman Scholarship.

 

The Best Poster Award was awarded to Jeong-Min Cheon for the poster “Coupled Phase Diagram Experiment and Thermodynamic Modeling of the Gd2O3-CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 System” at HT-CMC 11 conference, 27-31 August, 2023 in Jeju, South Korea.

 

Joonhyun Nam visited Tata Steel Netherlands for a three-month internship. During this period, he carried out fundamental research on Nitrogen pick-up and removal in the BOF process. Based on this research, he developed a model to predict the nitrogen content in molten steel within the BOF process.