Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, it is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 2020 Metals Travel Award:

Jae-Kyung Han, from Oregon State University, is a highly productive Ph.D. student who has been involved in several research projects related to the fabrication and characterization of bulk nanostructured metallic materials. He will attend and give an oral presentation at the symposium: “Ti-Alloys and Structural Metallic Materials for the Aerospace Industry” in THERMEC’2020.

Michele Dallago, from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Trento. His research focuses on the mechanics of cellular materials and an investigation of the static and fatigue behavior of cast iron. He will present his two works concerning the fatigue properties of SLM lattice and the fatigue of cast iron in Fatigue2020.

Please join me in congratulating them for their achievements. Each Awardee will receive 800 Swiss Francs towards their participations in these international conferences.

Hugo F. Lopez,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

Anonymous peer-reviewing guarantees the quality and integrity of scholarly communication. However, the Metals editorial team is extremely grateful to our reviewers for their time, energy, professionalism, and commitment. In order to acknowledge our reviewers and the time they so generously give to ensure high-quality publications in Metals, the editorial team has dedicated an award to reviewers in gratitude for their exceptional dedication in reviewing manuscripts for Metals.

The following reviewers have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Office of Metals to receive the “Metals Outstanding Reviewers 2019” awards for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019.

Dr. Antonio Riveiro
Applied Physics Department, School of Engineering, University of Vigo, Lagoas Marcosende s/n, 36310 Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain

Prof. Francisco J. G. Silva
ISEP–School of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal

Dr. Javier Aldazabal
University of Navarra, Spain

Prof. Jose Diaz
Energy Department, University of Oviedo. c/ Wifredo Ricart, 33204 Gijón, Spain

Dr. Maciej Motyka
Department of Materials Science/R&D Laboratory for Aerospace Materials, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland

Each winner will receive 300 Swiss Francs, a 50% discount for next publication in Metals, and an electronic certificate.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Metals Young Investigator Award offered by the Metals journal this year (2019) to the most outstanding young investigator in the field of metals research.

Dr. Enrique Galindo-Nava has being unanimously elected by the awards committee as the winner of this award as his successful trajectory clearly shows it. An evaluation of his accomplishments clearly indicates that his career as a young scientist is full of merit and highly competitive challenges where he has shown outstanding performance. He has received multiple awards from highly reputable organizations and research entities. His excellent scholarship is evident from his high performance at Cambridge University where he received a fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering for five years from January 2017. His work has been focused on disclosing fundamental aspects of plastic deformation and he has multiple publications in highly reputable journals in materials science and engineering. His work covers a wide number of topics of current importance including hydrogen embrittlement, structural materials for aerospace applications, computational materials and simulation of plasticity, among others. In addition, Dr. Enrique Galindo-Nava has been actively involved in collaborating with companies of high prestige such as Rolls-Royce. Therefore, I am confident that Dr. Enrique Galindo-Nava has a bright future as a scientist and as an academic is the clear winner.

I think he has outstanding potential as an academic and with the award of the RAE is on the brink of a successful academic career. He is exceptionally talented in his scientific insight, hardworking, efficient and an inspirational and reliable colleague. Congratulations on a well-deserved award.

Hugo F. Lopez,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Metals Travel Award:

Daria Zhemchuzhnikova, from Université de Lorraine is a highly prolific Ph.D. student with numerous relevant projects in Materials Science and Engineering, particularly related to high strength Al-Mg- Si alloys. She is familirand skillful in the use of analytical techniques and equipment for research purposes and has presented her work in various international conferences. She has written 4 patents and possesses numerous achievements and awards. In addition, her list of publications is impressive with 20 papers already published or in the processes of being published. Therefore, I gladly congratulate Daria Zhemchuzhnikova for her outstanding performance as she truly deserves the travel award from MDPI for 2017-18 offered to Ph.D. applicants.

Martin Diehl, from Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung GmbH has been actively involved in theoretical aspects of crystal plasticity. Through is career, he has been investigating the mechanical properties of aerospace alloys and has received awards in for his work on crystal plasticity simulations and for his expertise in mechanical engineering and materials science. He is the author of over 20 articles in highly recognized journals such as the International Journal of Platicity. It is my pleasure to congratulate Martin Diehl on being the elected postdoc travel award winner from MDPI for 2017-18.

Hugo F. Lopez,
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Metals, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2016 Travel Award sponsored by Metals:

The Travel Award is granted to Dr. Ahmad Talaat, a post-doctoral fellow at Faculty of Chemistry, Material Physics Department, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain. The award consists of 800 Swiss Francs.

From the applications received, it is obvious that there was a large pool of highly qualified candidates that deserve this award. Given the fact that only one award was available, it was not a simple task to select the winner for this year. In the election process, an experienced committee closely examined the applicants’ submitted documents, and ranked them based on strong research productivity and performance merit. From the outcome of this exercise Ahmad Talaat was ranked by three out of four committee members (including the Editor-in-Chief) as the winner of this year’s award. Please join me in congratulating Ahmad Talaat for a well-deserved prize.

Hugo F. Lopez
Editor-in-Chief