BIO of Spomenka Kobe

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Prof. Spomenka Kobe (http://magnetit.ijs.si) is Scientific Advisor, Head of the Department for Nanostructured materials and a Member of the Scientific Council at the Jozef Stefan Institute. She is full professor at the International Postgraduate School and the Leader of the National Research Programme "Nanostructured Materials". She is the Slovene director of LIA and a coordinator of European project "Replacement and Original Magnet Engineering Option" - ROMEO (FP7-NMP) and has been principal investigator of many national and international projects. Prof. Kobe is a recipient of two State Awards for Scientific Research and two Innovation Awards from industry for the successful transfer of technology. She is also the European Expert and Evaluator. Her scientific work is documented in more than 150 refereed publications, 7 chapters in a book and invited talks at international conferences. Her applied research achievements include 6 patents (3 EP), 3 innovations and 5 successful transfers of technology to the industrial production. Prof. Kobe is the President of the Academic Society for Science and Engineering (SATENA).
Job related skills: processing of intermetallic alloys including rare-earth transition-metal, permanent magnets, hydrogen-storage materials, quasicrystals, magnetocaloric materials, complex metallic alloys, influence of magnetic field in crystallization, application of RETM permanent magnets in ecology, effect on processing on microstructure and physical properties. Applied research has included the development and large-scale production of a large variety of magnetic materials, and in strong collaboration with industry; it has involved product development, quality control and troubleshooting at the factory-floor level.
Memberships: Slovenian Chemical society, Slovenian Material Society, MIDEM, European Ceramics Society, European Powder Metallurgy Association, Member of International Advisory Board of International Workshop on Rare-Earth Magnets and their Applications and International Symposium on Magnetic Anisotropy and Coercivity in Rare-Earth Transition Metal Alloys, Member of Magnetic Refrigeration Association, Member of TMS, IEEE Magnetics.

BIO of Mariana Calin

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Mariana Calin is currently associate professor and Metallic Biomaterials Group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden), Germany. Prior to joining IFW Dresden in 2006, M. Calin was a faculty member at the Materials Science & Physical Metallurgy Deparment, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Mariana Calin has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship (1996-1998, Dortmund University) provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2010 she received the Institute for Complex Materials Research Prize for her work on titanium-based biomaterials. Her primary interests are in the phase transformations and mechanical behavior of metallic materials, with focus on Ti-based biomaterials, metallic glasses and nanostructured alloys. M. Calin has co-authored over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals including the Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, and has delivered many presentations on her research at international conferences. She has ample experience with large-scale European research projects.

BIO of Jean-Marie Dubois

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Jean-Marie Dubois owns a PhD in Physics from Polytechnic National Institute, Nancy, France, a Dr Hon. Causa from Iowa State University,USA and another from Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil. He is a former overseas fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. and a professor at Dalian University of Technology, China. He was recently elected as Honorary Member of Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of Lorraine Science Academy and correspondent of Stanislas Academy, Nancy, France. Distinguished Director of Research at CNRS, France, he chairs the professional committee of CNRS that is dedicated to materials chemistry, nanomaterials and processing.
His research topics have revolved around metal physics and engineering of complex metallic materials. He is the author of more than 250 scientific articles in refereed journals, 14 international patents, and 7 books. After establishing structure models for metallic glasses and quasicrystals, Prof. Dubois became interested in applied properties of these materials: heat insulation, low adhesive properties and infrared light absorption, cold-welding and solid-solid adhesion in vacuum of Al-based complex intermetallics against steel. His general interest is on understanding the surface energy of those materials and their scaling properties in relation to their electronic structure and crystal lattice complexity.

BIO of Tamer Turna

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Tamer Turna, was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1967. He graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business – Executive Education Program (2015), performed his Ph.D. (2001), M.Sc. (1992), UGRD (1990) education at the Technical University Yildiz with the major in mechanical engineering, whereas his education credentials have been accepted by the University of Toronto (2015). Since 02/2018 Dr. Turna rejoined his own company TES (established in 1990) as the C.E.O. and shareholder, where he developed and structured an investment portfolio of 3.8 GW solar power, wind power and biogas to power projects for international investors and funds. Prior to joining TES, he worked as executive manager, C.E.O. and Board Member at companies (first to last) like Stromerzeugung u. Anlagenbau GmbH, Borusan Power Systems AS., CATERPILLAR Power Ventures Inc., MVV Energie AG., E.ON Energy Projects GmbH, E.ON Climate and Renewables Ltd., TES Ltd., Yildirim Energy Holding AS. His total experience of 28 years, covers a cumulative capacity of 97 GW installed power, having served in design-build-project management-sales-service-develop-finance-invest-asset management-trade, with a business footprint of having chased projects in 52 countries. His is a father of two children.