Winner SAMPE Benelux Student Meeting 2022
On May 17-18, 2022, the SAMPE Benelux Spring meeting 2022 took place in Enchede. PhD student Sofie Verstraete participated in the SAMPE Benelux student competition within the project partner KU Leuven, where the award for best (PhD) student presentation was won.
On May 18, 2022, the SAMPE Benelux Spring meeting 2022 took place in Enchede. This was coupled with a visit to the thermoplastic composites research center (TPRC). The day before, the SAMPE Benelux student competition usually takes place, where both master students and PhD students present their research to a jury, where the award for the best master and best PhD student presentation is presented. This year the award for best PhD student presentation was presented to Sofie Verstraete, who presented part of her research within the ATHENS project on mechanical characterization of short flax fiber filled bio-based thermoplastic composites.
The winners were then also given the opportunity to give the presentation again for all full SAMPE Benelux members at the actual SAMPE Benelux SPRING meeting that takes place the next day. Furthermore, the winners will defend the SAMPE Benelux branch with their presentation on November 16-18, 2022 at SAMPE Europe in Hamburg.
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SAMPE Europe conference
The SAMPE Europe conference took place in the week of November 14-17, 2022. As a selected candidate during the SAMPE Benelux student seminar earlier this year, the work within the ATHENS project was presented during the student seminar.
Participation in the Adhesion 2022 conference
KU Leuven participated in the Adhesion 2022 conference that took place in the Technology & Innovation center of the University of Strathclyde's in Glasgow (UK).
Poster presentation at the '6ème colloque fibers naturelles et polymeres'
On September 14-15, the '6ème colloque fibers naturelles et polymères' took place at the Center de Congress de l'Aube at Troyes. Here the work within the ATHENS project within KU Leuven in connection with characterizing the bio-fibre filled composites presented by means of a poster presentation.