Team
Principal Investigator
Dr.-Ing. Yan Ma
Assistant professor
- B.Eng., Metallurgical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, 2013
- M.Sc., Metallurgical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2015
- Dr.-Ing., Materials Science and Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2019
- Postdoc, MPI für Eisenforschung, Germany, 2020-2021
- Group leader, MPI for Sustainable Materials, Germany, since 2021
- Assistant professor, MSE, Delft University of Technology, since 2024
Postdoctoral Researchers
Doctoral Researchers
Coming soon
Research topic: Sustainable metal fuel cycle
Coming soon
Research topic: Sustainable ironmaking
Master Students
Qiaohui Lian
- B.Sc., Material Engineering, Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, China, 2022.
- Research topic: Porous metallic materials
- Co-supervised with Dr. Peyman Taheri
Hailin Ma
- Eng. in Polymer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2023.
- Research topic: 9R Perovskite
- Co-supervised with Dr. Pedro B. Groszewicz
Doctoral Researchers at MPI SusMat (co-supervision with Prof. Dierk Raabe)
- Dr. Özge Özgün (oral exam in April 2025), PhD thesis: Sustainable ironmaking through solid-state reduction of iron ores with hydrogen
- Dr. Chengguang Wu (oral exam in June 2025), PhD thesis: Role of interstitial atoms in microstructures and mechanical properties of TiNbZr and TiNbZrHfTa complex concentrated alloys
- Shiv Shankar (since July 2024)
- Adam Miles (since April 2024), also in the group of Dr. rer. nat. Yug Joshi
Alumni
Bachelor Students
- Derek van Benthem (2025)
- Olivier Boertje (2025)
- Willem van Buitenen (2025)
Master Students
Laura Zerafa (2025)