Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair
Asst. Professor Dr Raquel de Oro
Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
Assistant Professor Dr Raquel de Oro Calderon leads the Inorganic Multiphase, and Composite Materials research team at the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics at TU Wien, Austria. Her team investigates the production and processing of powders for the manufacture of novel and advanced powder metallurgy (PM) composite materials. She is particularly interested in solid/liquid/gas chemical interactions during sintering processes, and how these can be exploited to tune microstructures and create new high performance materials.
She studied Industrial Engineering at Carlos III University (Madrid, Spain) and obtained her Ph.D. at the same university, working on the design of liquid phase formers -masteralloys- (supported by the use of thermodynamic software tools) for the production of sintered steels with novel, environmentally friendly compositions. After a post-doctoral stay at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), she was awarded a European Marie Sklodowska-Curie IEF Post-doctoral Fellowship to work at TU Wien (Austria). During this fellowship she focused on sintering phenomena, especially on liquid phase sintering mechanisms and the influence of oxidation/reduction mechanisms. Since 2019, she is leading the research on hardmetals at her institute at TU Wien, conducting projects related to the “tailored” design of novel hardmetal binder compositions, optimization of powder production and processing, and understanding of chemistry/microstructure/property relationships in hardmetals. She is on the editorial board of the journals “Powder Metallurgy” and “Powder Metallurgy Progress” and has authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in encyclopedias. She is deeply involved in educational and scientific activities, having been invited to give numerous lectures and invited talks, and actively participating in the organization of conferences and symposia in the field of powder metallurgy.
Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair
PhD Gian Pietro De Gaudenzi
F.I.L.M.S. SpA – OMCD Group (Italy)
Gian Pietro De Gaudenzi earned a Master Degree in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and a PhD in Materials Engineering at the Università del Salento. Currently, he is the Head of HI.Lab and R&D Department at F.I.L.M.S. S.p.A., OMCD Group. He has been working in the hardmetal field for almost thirty years, after a five-years long research activity in the high temperature corrosion behaviour of materials for power plants.
The EPMA would like to express its sincere thanks to the members of the Technical Programme Committee for their support and hard work in structuring the Euro PM2025 programme.
Prof Marco Actis Grande (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Dr Iñigo Agote (TECNALIA, Spain)
Prof Paula Alvaredo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Mr Alexander Angré (Linde AG, Sweden)
Dr Miren Aristizabal (Ceit-IK4, Spain)
Dipl Ing Claus Aumund-Kopp (Fraunhofer IFAM, Germany)
Ing Naiara Azurmendi (TECNALIA, Spain)
Prof Fatima Barreiros (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal)
Prof Thierry Barrière (University of Franche-Comte, France)
Dr Cristina Berges Serrano (UCLM, Spain)
Dr Martin Bram (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany)
Prof Christoph Broeckmann (RWTH Aachen IWM, Germany)
Dr Monica Campos (Carlos III Madrid, Spain)
Prof Efrain Carreño-Morelli (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western, Switzerland)
Dr Riccardo Casati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Prof Isaac Chang (Brunel University, United Kingdom)
Dr Andrei Chychko (Sandvik, Sweden)
Dr-Ing Nuria Cinca (Hyperion Materials and Technologies, Spain)
Prof Ilaria Cristofolini (Trento University, Italy)
Prof Herbert Danninger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Dr Paul A Davies (Indo-mim, UK)
Dr Gian Pietro DeGaudenzi (F.I.L.M.S. SpA – OMCD Group, Italy)
Dr Raquel De Oro Calderon (TU Wien, Austria)
Mr Benjamin Delignon (Granges, France)
Dr Mark Dougan (AMES SA, Spain)
Dr Cristina Fernandes (Palbit S.A., Portugal)
Dr José Garcia (Sandvik Machining Solutions, Sweden)
Dr Christian Gierl-Mayer (TU Wien, Austria)
Prof Elena Gordo (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Dr Sebastian Boris Hein (Fraunhofer IFAM, Germany)
Dr. Robert Hellein (MIBA Sinter AT, Austria)
Dr Gemma Herranz (Castilla La Mancha University, Spain)
Dr Bjoern Hoschke (ZCC Cutting Tools Europe GmbH, Germany)
Dr Iñigo Iturizza (CEIT, Spain)
Dr Helio Jorge (CTCV-Technological Centre for Ceramics and Glass Industries, Portugal)
Dr Anke Kaletsch (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Mr Teemu Karhumaa (Tikomet Oy, Finland)
Mr Peter Kjeldsteen (Sintex a|s, Denmark)
Dr Christian Kukla (Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria)
Dr Miguel Lagos (TECNALIA, Spain)
Dr Inge Lindemann (Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, Germnay)
Dr Stefano Lionetti (RINA Consulting – Centro Sviluppo Materiali, Italy)
Prof Luis Miguel Llanes (Catalunya Univ Polytecnica, Spain)
Mr Marko Maetzig (ARBURG GmbH + Co KG, Germany)
Mr Anders Magnusson (Quintus – Sweden)
Dr Diego Manfredi (Politecnico di Torino – DISAT, Italy)
Dr José Manuel Martin (CEIT, Spain)
Prof Cinzia Menapace (University of Trento, Italy)
Dr Cèsar Molins (AMES, Spain)
Dr Siavash Momeni (Rieter, Switzerland)
Dr Steven Moseley (Hilti AG, Liechtenstein)
Susanne Mosler ( Rolls-Royce – Germany)
Eshwara Nidadavolu (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)
Dr Susanne Norgren (Sandvik, Sweden)
Prof Lars Nyborg (Chalmers, Sweden)
Dr Nerea Ordas (CEIT, Spain)
Prof Frank Petzoldt (Fraunhofer IFAM, Germany)
Dr Yoko Pittini-Yamada (Parmaco Metal Injection Molding AG, Switzerland)
Dr Ing Johannes Pötschke (Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany)
Ing Lea Reineke (Fraunhofer IFAM Bremen, Germany)
Mr Christophe Reynaud (CETIM, France)
Prof Elisa Ruiz-Navas (UC3 Madrid, Spain)
Dr Shandra Sainz (CEIT, Spain)
Dr Jose Manuel Sanchez Moreno (CEIT, Spain)
Mr Oliver Schenk (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Dr Georg Josef Schlick (Fraunhofer IGCV, Germany)
Dr-Ing Dominik Schmid (Kennametal, Germany)
Dr-Ing Markus Schneider (GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH, Germany)
Mr James Shipley (Quintus Technologies AB, Sweden)
Dr Tomás Soria Biurrun (CEIT-BRTA, Spain)
Dr Ing Thomas Studnitzky (Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, Germany)
Dr Sofia Tsipas (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Dr. Ralph Useldinger (Ceratizit Luxembourg)
Prof Jozef Vleugels (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Mr Mathias von Spalden (IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany)
Dr.-Ing Thomas Weißgärber (Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, Germnay)
Dr. -Ing Elsa Wellenkamp de Sequeiros (Porto University, Portugal)
Dipl.-Ing Matteo Zanon (Kymera International/Ecka Granules Germany)
Prof Jie Zhou (Delft Technical University, Netherland)