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July 21, 2023 - Dr. Carlos L. Bassani received the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Gas Hydrates - ICGH10 (https://icgh10.com/) held in Singapore from 9 to 14 of July, 2023, for the work entitled "A New Approach for Gas Hydrate Slurry Flow based on a Multiscale Model for Multipha...

July 12, 2023 - Sudeshna Roy has been awarded the FFL Habilitation Fellowship.

July 12, 2023 - Sudeshna Roy published the article "Effect of cohesion on structure of powder layers in additive manufacturing".

July 3, 2023 - Vasileios Angelidakis was invited to give a talk on June 30, 2023 at the Summer Semester Colloquium of the Chair of Methods for Model-based Development in Computational Engineering (MBD) of RWTH Aachen. The talk, entitled "From Soil Mechanics to Granular Metamaterials: Exploring the U...

June 30, 2023 - Dr. Abate, from Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina), will be a visiting researcher at MSS. She will study alongside Angel Santarossa and Dr. Achim Sack crack propagation and crack-front segmentation in brittle hydrogels with X-ray Computed Tomography.

June 12, 2023 - Olfa D’Angelo and Qing Yu are performing experiments under low-gravity, using the two facilities available at ZARM in Bremen: the drop tower and the new Gravi-Tower. They are studying the packing of granular materials under different gravitational accelerations, in the context of Qin...

MSS is organising the 9th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods. For more information click here.

May 28, 2023 - The issue 20 of Soft Matter selected our contribution as cover image. This image relates to the article Macroscopic analogue to entangled polymers, published by Leopoldo Gómez, Nicolas García and Thorsten Pöschel. Discover the article here.

May 1, 2023 - The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is an essential numerical tool for the simulation of granular materials, and is central to many research projects of the MSS. This semester, Vasileios Angelidakis teaches a new MSc course entitled Discrete Element Simulations, which he designed to e...

April 11, 2023 - Nicolas Pechler has joined as our new PhD student.