Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair
Prof. Herbert Danninger
Retired Professor for Chemical Technology of inorganic Materials
Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
Herbert Danninger is retired professor for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials at Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. He has been active in powder metallurgy research and education for more than 40 years and is author/co-author of 550+ publications as well as several books and book chapters. From 2009 to 2020 he was also chairman of “Gemeinschaftsausschuss Pulvermetallurgie”, the PM association of the German-speaking countries He holds honorary doctoral degrees of Technical University Cluj-Napoca, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universitatea din Craiova and is Fellow of APMI and EPMA. In 2020 he was awarded the “Ivor Jenkins Medal” of IOM3 and in 2022 the “Richard Zsigmondy Medal” of TU Wien.
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.