Plenary Speakers

Matthias Militzer

The University of British Columbia

Update time:2022-03-11 09:12

Matthias Militzer is the ArcelorMittal Dofasco Chair in Advanced Steel Processing and the Director of the Centre for Metallurgical Process Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received a Diploma in Physics from the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Metal Physics from the Academy of Sciences in East Germany in 1987. He moved to Canada in 1990 where he was first a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University before joining the University of British Columbia in 1993. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His primary field of research is modelling the microstructure evolution during thermo-mechanical processing of steels and other metals. Currently, his major research activities include multi-scale modelling of phase transformations in steels, accelerated cooling of steels and in-situ measurements of microstructures using laser ultrasonics for metallurgy. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and received the ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal 2010 and the Canadian Metal Physics Award in 2014.
Key Dates

Confirmation Deadline for Poster Presentation:           

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Registration Deadline for Authors / Presenters:
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Submission Deadline for Poster Presentation Document:
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Submission Deadline for Oral Presentation Document:
Friday, June 10, 2022