Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Alberto Molinari receives honorary doctorate degree from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid

The honorary degree was awarded for his work in the field of powder metallurgy

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Alberto Molinari, engineer, metallurgy professor at the University of Trento and current president of the Opera Universitaria, has received an honorary doctorate degree.

The degree was awarded by the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid during an official ceremony guided by the Rector of UC3M, Juan Romo, which took place on the occasion of the University Day, on 29 January, in the Getafe campus.

Herbert Danninger, engineer from the Technische Universität in Vienna, received the award together with Molinari.

The Universidad Carlos III - among the world’s top 30 universities less than 50 years old, with one of the most prominent metallurgy schools in Europe - has decided to bestow the honorary doctorate degree to Molinari as a means to acknowledge his long and exceptional scientific and academic activity.

According to the motivation provided at the award ceremony, the Universidad Carlos III deems Molinari a leading personality in the field of powder metallurgy, a subject that has been the main focus of his research activity since 1984 and the sector in which he had launched K4Sint, the first start-up of the University of Trento.

The award was proposed by the department of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Carlos III with the Àlvaro Alonso Barba Institute of Chemistry and Materials Technology.

Mónica Campos, from the above mentioned department, introduced the awardees and motivated the choice made.

Molinari, as his colleague Danninger, hold the prestigious Höganäs chair in powder metallurgy, supported by UC3M, to which he contributed significantly.

The UC3M awarded the honorary degree as an academic recognition of the industrial collaborations that Molinari established with the main European and national companies in the sector, his frequent scientific publications in international journals and the number of PhD students he supervised, his active participation in conferences (Chairman at the 2010 PMWorld Congress and member of the International Steering Committee at the 2016 PMWorld Congress) and international schools.

Molinari is in fact teaching at an international summer school in powder metallurgy and at the Young Engineering Day, both organised by the European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA). He also serves as a coordinator of the EPMA Research And Development NETwork (RadNET) and represents it in the EPMA board.