Prof. Boccaccini celebrates 35 years as member of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM)
This year, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 35 years of continuous membership of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM), one of the largest technical societies for materials science and materials engineering in Europe. Prof. Boccaccini said: “I am proud of my continuous membership of DGM for 35 years. My PhD supervisor, Prof. Gerhard Ondracek, encouraged me to join DGM back in 1990 as I was a PhD student at RWTH Aachen University, and since then the Society has been a significant support of my career, offering a powerful networking platform for interacting with experts in the field from both academia and industry. I am very grateful for all the support and recognition received from DGM colleagues in different stages of my career and I am honored to have been able to serve DGM in different capacities over the years”. Prof. Boccaccini was the recipient of the prestigious DGM Award (DGM-Preis) in 2015. He represents (since 2017) the DGM in the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) of which he is currently the President. Boccaccini as been a member of the scientific committee of the MSE Congress, organised by DGM, for more than 15 years. He has also been a member of the organizing committee of several DGM conferences for many years, including the Symposium on Composites (since 1999) and the Euro BioMat Conference series (since 2011).
