Annual General Meeting

Thursday 21 January 2016

Prof. Martine Wevers

department chair

Personnel MTM (January 2016)ZAP 13 fulltime (incl. 1 TT + 2 BOF-ZAP)

5 parttime (incl. 2 imec professors)

14,35 VTE

Bijz. emeritus 1 Ludo Froyen 0,1 VTE

Guest

professors

3 Hardy Mohrbacher, Frederik Verhaeghe,

Katsuyuki Wakabayashi

1,2 VTE

BAP 33 postdocs

6 onderzoekskader (2 IOF + 3 research

experts, 1 research manager)

72 researchers (PhD & project researchers)

(7 IWT-SB bursaries, 2 IWT Baekeland, 1 Aspirant FWO)

31,20 VTE

5,90 VTE

72 VTE

ATP 30 technical and administrative personnel 29,6 VTE

TOTAL 162 153,35

1/1

Personnel MTM (January 2016)

13,58%

3,70%

20,37%

43,83%

18,52%

Contractuele VTE

ZAP

Onderzoekskader

Postdoc

Wet.medew. & Doct.burs.

ATP

Personnel MTM (January 2016)

Total Man % Woman % International %

ZAP 19 14 74 5 26 4 21

BAP 113 78 69 35 31 85 75

ATP 30 24 80 6 20 5 17

Gender and diversity status

Personnel MTM (January 2016)

Personnel

ATP: Iris Cuppens 1.08.2015 and Marc Morgenroth 16.11.2015

Retired and Ere-ZAP: Marc De Bonte 1.10.2015

Many ‘new’ researchers, PhD’s and Postdocs from all over the world

MTM in the picture last year

• NDT @ KULeuven, 13.02.2015

• Inaugural lectures Materials Engineering, 16.02.2015

• Annual Research Meeting MRC 2015, 26.02.2015

• 4th International Slag Valorisation Symposium, 15-17.04.2015

• Opendoor Weekend Chemistry and Life Sciences,

Mechelen, 9-10.05.2015

• Graduate School on Strain Hardening 19-21.05.2015

• Res Metallica 2015 “Materials for Renewable and

Sustainable Energy” 27.05.2015

• Schoolbezoek van plus-klas “De Klare Bron” (Heverlee) 4.06.2015

MTM in the picture last year

• Umicore R&D visit to Leuven, June 2015

• Esomat 2015, 10th European Symposium on Martensitic

Transformations, 14-18.09.2015

• Science-day AreyouLEUVENit-reis

Sint-Martinus school (Herk-de-Stad), 25.09.2015

• Bauxite Residue Valorisation and Best Practices

Conference, 5-7.10.2015

• Aviation @ KU Leuven Workshop, 19.10.2015

• ATHENS week, 16-20.11.2015

MTM in the picture last yearMany media and press performances:

Materiaalkunde bij de top 50 van hun

discipline wereldwijd, Vlaamse

universiteiten gaan zelf hoornvlies maken

met 3D-printer (De Tijd), MTM sensors

continuously inspect pipelines at BASF

Antwerp, Wetenschap in de Kijker, Benefits

of Enhanced Landfill Mining with Ray

Cokes, Kan een circulaire economie de

wereld redden? (Canvas)…

MTM in the picture last year

• Leuven-MRC meetings organized by Karel & Jan

• House seminars organized by Marc, Jan & Jan

• L&L meetings organized by Jolien & Arne

• MAC meetings towards the MTM-spirit: suggestions to

distribute workload, performance appraisals, …

MTM and research• Awards Tobias Hertel won “The Best Paper Award” with his paper “A proposal for a 100% use of bauxite

residue: the process, results on the novel Fe-rich binder and how this can take place within the

alumina refinery” at the Bauxite Residue Valorisation and Best Practices Conference (5-7 October,

Leuven)

Maria Luz Montero Sistiaga won the ASML Master thesis prize 2015

Soultan Al Halifa was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the WHRI-ACADEMY for the period of

October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016 on the topic of ‘Synthesis and characterization of

cholesterol end-capped PEG-SAP hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering’. His supervisors for the

project are Prof. Jennifer Patterson from MTM and Prof. Wim De Borggraeve from the Department of

Chemistry.

Toray Chair for Fundamental Research in Composite Materials prolonged till 2018.

MTM and research• Awards CMG involved in two JEC Innovation Awards

Contributions were made to the EU FP-7 Biobuild External Wall Panel demonstrator, which was

chosen in the category “Building and Construction”.

The CMG also contributed to the new water-insensitive polyester accelerator technology from Akzo

Nobel, which won in the category “Resin Materials”.

Jennifer Patterson was selected by the European Commission, DG R&I to be a ‘visual testimonial’

for non-European researchers who have come to work in the EU. This was incorporated into a booth

‘Destination Europe’ at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in

San Jose, USA, in February 2015.

At the Society of Women Engineers’ WE Europe conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in May

2015, Jennifer Patterson received a certificate of appreciation in recognition of her ‘generous

commitment of time and dedication to expanding the mission of the Society to women engineers

around the world’.

MTM and research

• Infrastructure Upgrade of EDAX facilities on different microscopes

Installation of hydraulic press, a vibrating and jolting table, a ploughshare and a vertical mixer,

a polishing wheel at the SlagLab

Installation New TEM @ Corelabs

MTM and research

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All journals All conferences

MTM and research

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34,05

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MTM and researchConference papers (IC) Journal papers (IT)

Publications Citations

Citations

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publication

Publications Citations

Citations

per

publication

2004-2013 340 1.130 3,32 1.847 21.422 13,01

2005-2014 247 858 3,47 1.724 23.452 13,60

2006-2015 350 1050 3 1.735 25.415 14,65

# conference papers and citations

# journal papers and citations

and more important

the citations per publication

MTM and education

Educational programs

Self-evaluation report

Evaluation of the engineering curricula

of the FirW following the “Commission

des Titres d’Ingénieur (CTI)”

MTM and Education

Academicyear Bachelor

Dutch

Master

English

Master

Erasmus Total

2008-2009 33 18 24 10 85

2009-2010 24 24 41 11 100

2010-2011 30 30 58 18 136

2011-2012 32 33 57 14 136

2012-2013 26 31 54 18 129

2013-2014 32 29 61 19 141

2014-2015 37 27 53 8 125

2015-2016 21 24 35 9 89

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Academic year

MTM and education

Gender and diversity status January 2016

Belgium Man % Woman % International Man % Woman %

Dutch Master 24 16 67 8 33 - - - - -

International Master

- - - - - 35 23 66 12 34

Erasmus - - - - - 9 4 44 5 56

MTM in 2016

• ‘One policy plan/een beleidsplan’ MTM en TC Materials

Technology @ KU Leuven Association: De Nayer,

KaHoSL, Group T, KHLim, KuLaB

• Upgrade of MTM building: start April 2016 (new elevator) -

Summer 2017 (the building itself)

• Performance appraisal of the MTM-members to be

continued

• The 2015 KU Leuven employee satisfaction survey ended.

Action plans will follow from the base

• …

MTM in 2016

• Attract new ZAP members

“Sustainable materials processing, recycling and residue valorization”

(pBOF-ZAP oct. 2016)

“Atomistic calculations of the stability and behavior of bulk and

nanomaterials” (Opportunity in Odysseus call?)

• Carry out research that is groundbreaking and inspiring for

others (industry and the university partners) and is often

multidisciplinary!

• Support each other’s work

MTM in 2016

• Res Metallica, 11.05.2016

• 10 year MRC, 4.10.2016

• Inauguration of SlagLab

• Inauguration of TEM facility in NanoCentre

We all together at MTM ....

So that we can secure

The department for high level “academic education”,

“research” and “services” in material science and

engineering.

A department that recrutes “world wide” and is a renowned

institution.

It’s good to be at MTM !