John Ågren receives Adolf Martens Memorial Steel Lecture Award
John Ågren, professor emeritus at Material Science KTH, has been honored by the prestigious Adolf Martens Memorial Steel Lecture Award for his outstanding contributions to the physical metallurgy and computational materials science field.
The Adolf Martens Memorial Steel Lecture Award presented by the Association for Iron & Steel Technology and recognizes individuals who have made outstanding lifetime contributions and impact on this field.
Ågren receives the award for his expertise that spans over several decades. His reserach covers a wide range of materials such as steels, super alloys, cemented carbides as well as topics like powder-metallurgical processing and heat treatment of steels. Ågren has published more than 200 journal articles within the areas of phase transformations, diffusion and thermodynamics with an emphasis towards modelling and simulations and holds several international awards and academy memberships.
What does receiving this award mean to you?
"I am proud, particularly when I see the list of previous awardees."
In your opinion, what is the major contribution of your work that led to this honor?
"It is to show how basic science can be applied to solve engineering problems in an industrial context and even on a commercial basis; in particular the development of the Thermo-Calc company where I have been active in the directory board since the start almost 30 years ago. The company serves academia and industry all over the world with software and databases for simulations based on thermodynamics, says Ågren."
Text: Rita Nõu