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On 26.02.2021, I succesfully completed the scientific defence of my doctoral thesis titled “Thermal cutting of steel plates – modelling, simulation and optimal control of preheating strategies”. The defence at the Technical University of Berlin consists on a 30min presentation of the work done and then a 1 to 2 […]

PhD Defence of Manuel J. Arenas


Satish successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 28th, 2020. The dissertation with the title “Sensitization in austenitic stainless steels : quantitative prediction considering multicomponent thermodynamic and mass balance effects” can be found here. The official opponents for his public defence were Professor Minnamari Vippola and Professor Paulo J. Ferreira. […]

PhD Defence of Satish Kolli


The academic doctoral dissertation of Eshwar Ramasetti was presented for the public defence at the University of Oulu, Faculty of Technology, Center of advanced steel research on Friday, October 25th, 2019. The dissertation with the title “Modelling of Open-eye Formation and Mixing Phenomena in a Gas-stirred Ladle for Different Operating […]

PhD Defence of Eshwar Ramasetti



The academic doctoral dissertation of Vahid Javaheri was presented for the public defence at the University of Oulu, Faculty of Technology, Center of advanced steel research on Friday, November first 2019. The dissertation with the title of ”Design, thermomechanical processing and induction hardening of a new medium-carbon steel microalloyed with niobium” can be found […]

Doctoral defence of Vahid Javaheri on 1.11.2019


On Wednesday, 30th October, I had the pleasure to present the results ofmy project during my PhD defence at the Weierstrass Institute. The oralpresentation consisted of two parts: a 30-min part on a mathematicaltopic of general interest and 10 minutes on my thesis, which is quiteshort to relate the work […]

PhD defence for work package 6


My name is Prerana Das, and I am from India. With bachelor’s in mechanical engineering, I pursued my master’s in computational engineering from Germany. Further, I wanted to carry out my studies in association with industrial applicability. The industrial PhD program of MIMESIS presented the perfect opportunity to do so. […]

Prerana Das – MIMESIS Experience




Kemi mine (the only chromite mine within EU) is a part of most integrated stainless steel production chain in combination with Outokumpu stainless oy at Tornio. Penetrated as of now to 1000 meter depth,  the ore deposit extends to even four kilometers. Production capacity is around 2.4 million tonnes of […]

Visit to Kemi mine


During the MIMESIS project, the students are based at different institutions in Europe. All the eight students have meet up only when attending common courses and during the general yearly meetings. On November 2017, several students who were working in Northern Finland took an opportunity to have a get-together at the […]

Short Meeting in Oulu