On Tuesday, May 6th, head of the 3D Imaging Center Henning Friis Poulsen, DTU Physics, received the prestigious Villum Investigator grant. The grant is awarded to experienced and internationally recognized researchers who continue to lead world-class research.
Professor Henning Friis Poulsen, DTU Physics, receives approximately 30 million for his research project 'Deformation and Failure in 4D'. The remarkable mechanical properties of metals are due to defects that accumulate in them, but the exact mechanisms are still unknown. In his project, Henning Friis Poulsen will use unique X-ray microscopes to film these defects in 3D, at nanometer and nanosecond scales. The results will lead to new theories and better predictions of the strength and durability of metals.
The 30 million DKK grant will support a 6-year project focused on developing a first-principles understanding of how metallic materials deform, strengthen, and ultimately break. The work will be based at DTU Physics at The Technical University of Denmark in collaboration with Grethe Winther and Christian F. Niordson at DTU Construct. The research is enabled by the development of two unique x-ray microscopes at the ESRF - The European Synchrotron (Lyon) and the European XFEL (Hamburg), which allow the researchers to directly film the interior of materials with unprecedented 30 nm spatial and 200 ns temporal resolution.
Additional DTU researchers also received the Investigator grant. Read more about their projects here or learn more from the Villum Foundation.
