Honoured - WOT graduate receives the Eleonore-Dießner Prize of Chemnitz University of Technology 2021
Chemnitz University of Technology honoured nine young female scientists for their outstanding theses. Alina Joanna Meyer, who completed her Master's thesis on „The influence of plasma electrolytic polishing on medical products based on nickel-titanium shape memory alloys“ at the WOT professorship, is one of them.
The Eleonore-Dießner-Prize is awarded by the university management and the Equal Opportunities Commission of Chemnitz University of Technology to honour young female scientists who have shown through their excellent theses that they are particularly capable of working scientifically and investigating a research topic in a results-oriented manner. The prize also serves to encourage the graduates to continue their commitment in a leading position in science and research. The award's namesake, Dr Eleonore Dießner, was one of the first female students at the University of Mechanical Engineering in Chemnitz, which was then still called Karl-Marx-Stadt. After becoming the second woman in the STEM field at this forerunner institution of today's Chemnitz University of Technology in 1969, she worked successfully as a scientist and was also involved as a board member of the working group „Women in the Engineering Profession“ of the Association of German Engineers in Saxony.
In her work, Ms Meyer investigated the manufacturing process of plasma electrolytic polishing. This is based on material removal by a process-related plasma that encloses a workpiece immersed in an electrolyte and micromechanically removes its surface by means of ion bombardment. As virtually no mechanical forces act on the workpiece surface, conductive materials can be processed regardless of their hardness and toughness. In order to characterise the effect of plasma electrolytic polishing processes on medical technology products, a test setup was to be developed and implemented as part of the work. Ms Meyer used this to carry out investigations into the finishing of medically relevant NiTi shape memory alloys.
The master's thesis was co-supervised by the Chair of WOT and the BTE Beckmann Institute for Technology Development in Chemnitz.
The entire press release on the prizes awarded is available on the website of the TU Chemnitz press office ( https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/pressestelle/aktuell/11033 ).
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Alina Joanna Meyer with the certificate for receiving the Eleonore-Dießner Prize of Chemnitz University of Technology 2021 (Photo: private)
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