Interview

Lisa Beran

Lisa Beran is a bilingual theoretical physicist with a PhD from the Philipps University in Marburg. She is currently working as a researcher at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken in the program division "Structure Formation". Within the MaterialDigital initiative, Lisa Beran has been working in the DigiBatMat project since June 2022 and will continue her work in the follow-up project DaMaStE.

Alexander Straumal

Since January 2023, Dr. Alexander Straumal manages the MaterialDigital platform office and coordinates the platform's development. Previously, he worked in materials science research and studied grain boundaries and grain boundary effects in polycrystalline metals.

Birgit Skrotzki

The scientist Birgit Skrotzki heads the Division Metallic High Temperature Materials at BAM and is a member of the steering committee in the project Platform MaterialDigital. Birgit Skrotzki is also currently President of the German Society for Materials Science (DGM).