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Holger Götz successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title “Jamming und Konvektion in Granulaten”

May 22, 2024 - In his thesis, Holger Götz investigated and characterized the granular gripper and granular metamaterials, two systems in which granular jamming is used to achieve variable stiffness. Additionally, he studied vibrated granulates in zero gravity conditions, investigating the causes of ...

Olfa D’Angelo is co-organizing, with Thomas Voigtmann and Norman Wagner, a mini-session on Space Applications and Low-gravity Research at the Society of Rheology in Austin (TX)

October 13-17, 2024 - Olfa D'Angelo is co-organizing, with Thomas Voigtmann and Norman Wagner, a mini-session on Space Applications and Low-gravity Research at the Society of Rheology in Austin (TX), Oct. 13-17, 2024. This mini-session offers a platform for rheology and space-related science to m...

2024 ATOMS Seminar Series by Dr. Carlos Lange Bassani on Emergence of Mesomorphology from Molecular Ordering

Continuing our 2024 ATOMS Seminar Series, we would like to invite you to our next seminar, which will be held next Thursday, May 16th, at 12h (Brasília time, UTC – 3). We will open the Zoom meeting at 11h30 (Brasília time, UTC – 3) so everyone can enter in advance and the webinar starts on time. Fo...

A team from MSS was part of the first Lunar gravity campaign at the new generation drop tower in Bremen

March 11, 2024 - Olfa D’Angelo and Geovane de Jesus Rodrigues used the new generation drop tower, the Gravity Tower Bremen (GTB) at ZARM in Bremen, for the first ever commercial campaign simulating Moon’s gravity. Their experiments will help future space missions planning by better understanding the...

MSS Annual Report 2023

March 5, 2024 - MSS annual report 2023 has been published. Click here.

A team from MSS conducted a centrifuge campaign at ESA/ESTEC in the Netherlands

February 29, 2024 - Olfa D'Angelo, Geovane de Jesus Rodrigues and Nadja Al Akkam were at the Large Diameter Centrifuge (LDC) for testing the effect of hypergravity on the behavior of granular materials similar to the soil found on the Moon surface.

Michael Engel among top 2% most widely cited scientists

January 7, 2024 - Michael Engel, professor at MSS, is among the 2% most cited scientists worldwide in 2022. The study by a team of researchers from Stanford University is based on data extracted from Scopus: https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.6 See also: https://www.fau.eu/2023/10/19/news/more-th...

Meysam Bagheri’s Artwork in 2024 EAM Calendar

December 2, 2023 - Meysam Bagheri's artwork, submitted for the DEM9 art contest, has been chosen to be featured in the upcoming 2024 EAM (Engineering of Advanced Materials) calendar. The piece is set to be showcased as the featured image for the month of March.

Olfa D’Angelo was invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Amsterdam on Biomimicry for Aerospace

November 23, 2023 - As part of the lecture Science, Technology & Innovation: Biomimicry, Olfa D'Angelo was invited to the University of Amsterdam, Institute of Physics, to give a lecture on Biomimicry for Aerospace. Science, Technology & Innovation: Biomimicry

Qing Yu successfully graduated his Masters today with a public defense given at MSS

November 9, 2023 - Congratulations to Qing Yu who graduated today after defending his Masters thesis. His project, supervised by Olfa D'Angelo, was on the jamming transition in granular matter under different gravitational accelerations. During his time at MSS, he had the opportunity to go the to dr...