For the degree of Doctor of Engineering Scineces and Technology Nonlinear dynamic analyses of buildings and infrastructure use viscous damping models to represent energy dissipation sources independent of the materials' constitutive rules.

For the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences and Technology Climate change is an urgent challenge nowadays. The constant accumulation of greenhouse gases and their drastic consequences have led to intensified research aiming to reduce the impact of human activities on the environment.

X-ray phase contrast imaging techniques extend the unique capabilities of hard X-ray radiation to probe the internal structure of opaque samples to all those cases where attenuation is not generating sufficient contrast.

Biological systems constantly re-model their material structure and properties under everyday loads. Precise measurement of these properties over time directly influences our capacity to innovate functional solutions in biomedical engineering and the biosciences.

This seminar will be the occasion to introduce the audience to the transmission electron microscope (TEM), with a specific emphasis on material science applications.

External flow simulations are ubiquitous in several scientific and engineering fields, with e.g.

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This seminar begins with a presentation on membrane science and technology, the membrane community, and current challenges. Particular attention will be given to the role of membranes in antisolvent crystallization. This represents the doing of a scientist: moving science forwards. The second part, is an open discussion on the being, or the human aspect of a scientist.

The design of emerging energy systems relies on limited market data and long-term forecasts, leading to significant uncertainty in critical model inputs such as efficiencies, resource availabilities, fuel prices and investment costs. We consistently underestimate these uncertainties due to our reliance on the ordinary and the predictable, neglecting exceptional scenarios.

Recently, the development of a new generation of advanced instruments for in-situ nanomechanical testing inside the transmission electron microscope (TEM) has allowed establishing a one-to-one relationship between load-displacement characteristics and stress-induced microstructure evolution in the transmission electron microscope.