Foreword: “Eurosuperalloys 2022”

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This topical edition of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A contains 48 papers that were presented during the 4th European Conference on Superalloys (“Eurosuperalloys 2022”) which took place in Bamberg in Germany, during the period 3rd–7th September 2022. This conference, chaired by Prof. Dr. Mathias Göken (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg), was co-organized by the Ruhr-University Bochum (Pr. Dr. G. Eggeler, Dr. T. Hammerschmidt), the Friedrich-Alexander-University (Pr. Dr. Eng. C. Körner and Dr. S. Neumeier) and the University of Bayreuth (Pr. Dr. U. Glatzel), with the technical support of the German Materials Society DGM. After the 2020–2021 pandemic period, this was the first conference from this field held “in-person”, attended by more than 300 colleagues (~ 220 on-site) from Academia, National labs and Industry. …