The research carried out in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering covers four main research areas:

• Micro/Nano structuring for the tailoring of materials properties
• New phases and interfaces
• Materials and scaling effects on engineering/manufacturing
• Computational materials science and engineering

Following Research Groups participate in the Master and provide topics for the Master Thesis:

Materials Science and Methods

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Horst Vehoff

Microstructure mechanics

• Experimental, Modelling, Simulation, Characterization of Materials at the Nano scale
• Lifetime Prediction
• Fatigue, Creep, Corrosion

Link to open positions for PhD, Master and Diploma Thesis:   http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/wwm/jobs_d.shtm

Adhesion and Interphases in Polymers

Prof. Dr. Wulff Possart

• Structure, Chemistry and Properties in Polymer-Solid-Interphases
• Organic and Polymeric Thin Films
• Adhesion Mechanisms
• Modification and Characterization of Surfaces
• Nanocomposites: Polymers with Nanoparticles

Link to open positions for PhD, Master and Diploma Thesis:   http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/wwthd/index.ger.html

Metallic Materials

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Busch

• Metallic Bulk Materials
• Biomaterials

Link to open positions for PhD, Master and Diploma Thesis:   http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/lmw/en/jobs%20en.htm

Functional Materials

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Mücklich

• Electroerosion and Plasma-Material-Interaction
• Intermetallic Functional Materials
• Micro-/Nano structuring and surface functionalization
• 3D-Analysis of Micro- and Nano structures

 Link to open positions of PhD, Master and Diploma Thesis:   http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/fuwe/fuwe_de/DiplDoc/index.html

Powder Technology for Glass and Ceramics

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rolf Clasen

• Preparation of advanced glasses and ceramics via sintering of nanopowders
• Electric-field enhanced processing
• Rapid prototyping and functional/structured thick coatings
• New materials for efficent energy utilization
• Optical high performance materials and spectroscopy

Link to open positions for PhD, Master and Diploma Thesis:   http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/powdertech/Englisch/index_eng.html (vacancies)

Applied Mechanics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Diebels

• Continuum mechanics and experimental mechanics
• Numerical Methods (FEM)
• Micro-Macro-Transition

Link to open positions for PhD, Master and Diploma Thesis:       http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak8/tm/index-en.html