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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Metals 2023 Reviewer Award. The Metals Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Metals. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.
Dr. Tomasz Trzepiecinski Department of Manufacturing and Production Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland Research interests: anisotropic plasticity; computational modeling; constitutive modeling; finite element method (FEM); friction; friction welding; manufacturing processes; sheet metal forming; tribology
Dr. Minho Oh Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan Research interests: reactive diffusion at dissimilar metallic bonding interfaces; solder materials; transient liquid phase bonding; microstructure of metallic materials
The Prize for Each Winner: – CHF 500; – The opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Metals in 2024 following peer review; – A certificate.