The Authors

Johannes Preußner is a scientific researcher and Ph.D. student at the Chair of Metals and Alloys at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His main interests include modelling and simulation in materials science and new high-temperature materials.

Sara Prins is a research metrologist at the National Metrology Institute of South Africa. She is undertaking Ph.D. research at the Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A., where she is working on phase diagram and first-principles calculations.

In his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Bayreuth, Markus Wenderoth developed new precipitation-hardened platinum base alloys for application at high temperatures and experimentally analysed their microstructure, high-temperature strength and oxidation behaviour. He is now working as a production engineer with Siemens Medical Solutions, Vacuum Technology Division.

Dr.-Ing. Rainer Völkl is an academic councillor and senior researcher at the Chair of Metals and Alloys, University of Bayreuth. His main fields of research include alloys of platinum group metals as well as nickel base alloys, testing of mechanical properties at high temperatures and electron microscopy.

Professor Dr.-Ing. Uwe Glatzel is head of the Chair of Metals and Alloys at the University of Bayreuth. His work had a big impact on the development of modern high-temperature alloys, mainly nickel base superalloys. He advises several research groups, including those working on platinum-based superalloys and other alloys for high-temperature applications, laser metallurgy, material analysis and artificial knee joints.