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The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, was founded 250 years ago in 1765 as a School of Mining and Technology in Freiberg, Germany, based on old tradition of mining for silver ores and non-ferrous metallurgy in Ore Mountains, Germany. Thus, from the early beginning, non-ferrous metallurgy was a major topic. Later on, Adolf Ledebur was appointed for a professorship in ferrous metallurgy in 1874, founding an institute for research and education on iron and steel. Based on this 250-year-old tradition, materials science and technology is one of the key topics in research and education at our University today with a total of 15 professors working in fundamental and applied subjects of metals, ceramics, composites, and structure and property analysis as well as modeling. …