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November 7, 2023 - Olfa D'Angelo was selected to be part of the European Space Agency's Facility Definition Team on the next generation of space research facilities. As part of the SciSpacE panel of scientists, she will support ESA in the definition of science activities for the post-ISS era.

October 27, 2023 - Frederik Keil defended his bachelor's thesis on random packings of Meissner tetrahedra. He has implemented a method to calculate the packing density and developed a new method to determine the positions and orientations of the individual Meissner tetrahedra within the packing from...

October 27, 2023 - Dr. Carlos L. Bassani was awarded the EAM Starting Grant 2023 with the project entitled “Kinetic Pathways of Lower Symmetry Nanocrystal Habits”. The EAM Starting Grant supports scientific independence of postdoctoral researchers and junior group leaders, and promotes applications ...

October 25, 2023 - Prashanth Prakash Kamath defended his MSc thesis entitled “Simulation of Critical Settling Velocity of Gas Hydrate Slurries” on October 25, 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Engel and Dr. Carlos L. Bassani. Congratulations, Prashanth!

October 12, 2023 - The talk given by Dirk Helbing at the DEM9 conference in September of 2023 at MSS is now accessible online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SazTHi9WlLs In this talk, he looks back to how thee field of pedestrian, crowd and evacuation dynamics emerged in physics, and how it devel...

October 09, 2023 - Olfa D'Angelo published a paper on Curvature of gastrocnemius muscle fascicles as function of muscle– tendon complex length and contraction in humans. Click here for more information.

October 2, 2023 - Geovane de Jesus Rodrigues starts his PhD at MSS. He will work on the rheology of Lunar regolith.

September 29, 2023 - The project Granular Rheology In Space (GRIS), lead by Olfa D'Angelo, started with a kick-off meeting in Duisburg. This project is a collaboration between Olfa D'Angelo, from MSS, Jonathan Kollmer and Jens Teiser, from the Experimental Astrophysics group of Duisburg-Essen Univer...

September 28, 2023 - Olfa D'Angelo was invited to give a talk to the Experimental Astrophysics group, lead by Gehard Wurm, at the Duisburg-Essen University.

August 08, 2023 - Nadja Al Akkam and Olfa D'Angelo were awarded the International Visiting Scholarship for their project on the rheology of Lunar regolith. Nadja Al Akkam is doing her Master's project under the supervision of Olfa D'Angelo; both will be going to the European Space Agency's Large Dia...