Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics
Empa. Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

What's your research area of interest? are you working? where?
I am PhD. student at ETH Zürich-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (Department for Materials, Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials) and Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology (Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics) in Switzerland.
I am working on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells’ cathode materials LaSrFeNi-oxides. Mainly on crystallographic structure, electronic structure and transport properties.

What's your experience with muons or neutrons techniques?
I did neutron diffraction measurements at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble/France.


What was your specific interest in the 2010 MRS Spring Meeting?
MRS Spring Meeting 2010 with its 42 different symposiums is highly interdisciplinary including materials science, chemistry, physics, and nanotechnology which address fundamental questions as well as applications. It is world wide meeting. In addition, I am a member of MRS for 2 years, I was very happy to be able to join to the meeting.

What was your goal?
My main goal was sharing my work with the scientific committee and with many experts and discuss about that. I had one oral and one poster presentation during meeting. In addition I would like to see other people’s work.

What was the role of neutrons in this Conference?
My talk in symposium W mainly includes 2 parts: crystallographic structure and electronic structure of LaSrFeNi-oxides. For the first part, I discussed about neutron diffraction re-sults and showed the temperature dependent phase transition in the system.

Attending this conference gave you the opportunity to ...
- share my work with audience and discuss with many experienced people about that.
- see other people’s works and keep track on the recent scientific projects.
- be a symposium assistant and take an opportunity to help the organizers during the sessions.
- be a session chair and get more experience about how to control a session.


How did you know about NMI3, European funded project, and the MRS support?
I was interested in many symposia in MRS Spring Meeting 2010. However, my own study is for MRS Symposium W: Diagnostics and Characterization of Energy Materials with Synchrotron and Neutron Radiation. The web page of the symposia it is written that
“Partial graduate student support may be available...”
Therefore, I contacted with the organizers of the symposia and they helped about that.

Was helpful for you?
Yes, it was really helpful. Probably, without this support I was not able to join to MRS 2010.
I really would like to thank to NMI3, European funded project for the support and all the organizers of MRS Spring Meeting 2010 but especially symposium W organizers

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