December 2025
Prof. Darvishi Kamachali has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)
Prof. Darvishi Kamachali of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Department of Materials Engineering, and the Institute of Materials Physics at the University of Münster, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), one of Europe’s most prestigious funding schemes for excellent researchers. The decision highlights the scientific significance of his work in the field of materials modelling. The project “AMASE” on the behaviour and evolution of advanced high-performance materials receives funding of €2 million and is funded over five years.
Within the framework of “Assessing Microstructure Phase Maps (AMASE)” Prof. Darvishi Kamachali will develop new methods for the consistent calculation of the thermodynamics and kinetics of material defects. AMASE pursues an ambitious yet precisely-defined goal: to predict how defects in real materials rearrange, interact with and stabilize each other, and how their “landscape” influences the performance limits, service life, and safe application of advanced materials.
“Being able to predict such defects drastically shortens development times in materials research, particularly for demanding applications in the automotive, battery, and aerospace industries,” says Prof. Darvishi Kamachali, who in addition to his role at BAM also holds the Chair of Materials Modelling at the Institute of Materials Physics at the University of Münster. “In this way, AMASE drives a digitally accelerated innovation cycle for high-performance materials and enables safer, longer-lasting, and more reliable components for demanding applications.”
December 2025
Award for Talk at EPCOS 2025
Das Rektorat der Universität Münster hat in einer Feierstunde in der Aula im Schloss 13 Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler mit dem Dissertationspreis des Jahres 2025 ausgezeichnet. Neben der wissenschaftlichen Exzellenz müssen die Dissertationen dafür "ein hohes Maß an Originalität aufweisen und einen bedeutsamen Beitrag zur aktuellen Forschung leisten". Rektor Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels und Prof. Dr. Maike Tietjens, Prorektorin für akademische Karriereentwicklung und Diversity, verliehen die Auszeichnungen. Sie sind mit jeweils 3.000 Euro dotiert, um die weitere Arbeit der Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger an der Universität Münster oder an einer anderen nationalen oder internationalen Hochschule zu fördern.
Wie Maike Tietjens sagte: „Wir sind stolz auf die herausragenden Leistungen unserer aufstrebenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler“. Dem können wir uns nur anschließen!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Nils Holle!
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September 2025
Award for Talk at EPCOS 2025
Our group member Nils Holle received the second prize for best talk at the EPCOS 2025 conference in Marseille. In his presentation titled “Effect of Peierls-like distortions on transport in amorphous phase change devices,” he presented new insights into electronic transport in phase change materials – materials that could play a key role in neuromorphic computing.
Using advanced computer simulations, the study shows how tiny atomic distortions in amorphous materials affect the flow of electrical current and contribute to resistance drift, a key challenge for future memory and computing devices.
Congratulations on this recognition!
Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-025-00776-5
August 2025
Current degrees
Ms Dr. Olivia Vaerst (AG Wilde),
Mr. Dr. Manoel da Silva Pinto (AG Wilde) and
Ms. Dr. Lydia Daum (AG Wilde)
finished their doctorate!
Congratulation!
January 2025
New insights into the transformation dynamics of antimony
Physicists from Münster research glass formation for photonic switches
At the Institute of Materials Physics at the University of Münster, researchers investigate materials that can transform their internal structure very rapidly, thereby significantly changing their optical properties. This behaviour is useful, for example, when processing information using photonic waveguides. Together with other researchers in Prof Martin Salinga’s team and cooperation partners from the University of Groningen, doctoral student Sebastian Walfort has shown for the first time which phases the chemical element antimony undergoes during its transformation.
The full article can be found here.