The aim of the competition is to develop interest in and promote powder metallurgy among young scientists at European academic establishments, and to encourage research at under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
It offers financial prizes to the winners who also have the opportunity to present their work to the EPMA conference and receive a plaque from the EPMA President at the Euro PM2025 plenary session.
We are pleased to announce that Thesis Competition 2025 will be sponsored by HILTI.
For more information about the EPMA PM Thesis Competition, or to submit an entry for 2025, please visit the Thesis Competition website.
The PhD category winner, Dr Bruno Guimarães (University of Minho) for his thesis on ” Multi-Functional WC-Co cutting tool – a Multi-Material Engineering Design”
The Masters category winner, Mr Alessandro De Nardi (Politecnico di Torino) for his work on “Development of CoNi-based High Entropy Superalloys”