January 2010	The new version of our web pages is online, http://www.mawi.tu-darmstadt.de/ma/
	December 2009	Cornelia Neetzel finished her Diploma thesis.
	December 2009	Dorothea Berres went into retirement.
	November 2009	Olaf Baake finished his PhD thesis.
	November 2009	The group was renamed to Materials Analysis.
	November 2009	Christian Stegmann started his Diploma thesis on fabrication of high purity metallic sputter targets by spray methods.
	October 2009	Mubarak Ali finished his PhD thesis.
	September 2009	Renuka Krishnakumar started her PhD thesis on oxidic scintillators for heavy ion irradiation in collaboration with GSI.
	September 2009	Mahdi Seifollahi Bazarjani finished his masters thesis.
	August 2009	Excursion to Weilburg.
	August 2009	Umme Habiba Hossain (from Bangladesh) started her work on radiation damage of polymers at GSI
	June 2009	Summer barbecue.
	May 2009	Christian Schmitt joined the group to work on our project within the SFB595.
	May 2009	Decommission of the WDXRF, TXRFs and the Ion Chromatograph.
	May 2009	Dr. Nhu-Tarnawska Hoa Kim Ngan from the Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University of Cracow, is a visiting scientist for the next weeks.
	March 2009	Mahdi Seifollahi Bazarjani started his FAME masters thesis on nanotubes.
	February 2009	Cornelia Neetzel from Philipps-Universität Marburg started her thesis on nanotubes.
	February 2009	Dr. Daniel Severin left the group to join the GSI.
	January 2009	Falk Münch started his PhD thesis on the application of nanopores, a project in collaboration with the GSI.
	January 2009	Sebastian Wiegand started his PhD thesis on lead-free piezo ceramic thin films, a project within the LOEWE centre Adaptronik.
	December 2008	Dr. Peter Hoffmann went into retirement.
	December 2008	Stefan Hummelt got married, congratulations on the wedding.
	December 2008	Falk Münch finished his thesis on nanowires.
	December 2008	Sebastian Wiegand finished his thesis on PZT thin films.
	November 2008	Dr. Nhu-Tarnawska Hoa Kim Ngan from the Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University of Cracow, is a visiting scientist for the next month.
	November 2008	Mario Böhme participates in the Amsterdam-Dakar-Challenge. Read about his progress here
	September 2008	Eiko Gütlich started his PhD thesis on scintillators for high current applications at UNILAC, in collaboration with GSI.
	September 2008	Dr. Gulnaz Latypova from Bashkortostan is a visiting scientist for the next three month.
	July 2008	Thomas Herrmann visited East Siberia to collect airborne particles during a cruise on Lake Baikal.
	July 2008	Falk Münch from Philipps-Universität Marburg started his thesis on nanowires.
	June 2008	Some advanced annealing studies.
	May 2008	Excursion to the Darmstadt catacombs under the Biergarten Darmstadt
	May 2008	Dr. Min Chol Ho from North Corea is a visiting scientist for the next three month.
	May 2008	We now have a profilometer, a Dektak 8000.
	April 2008	Dr. Ruriko Hatada from the Industrial Technology Center of Nagasaki, Japan, is a visiting scientist for the next two years.
	April 2008	Sebastian Wiegand joined our group and started his thesis on PZT thin films.
	March 2008	One of our AAS instruments was replaced with a Perkin Elmer 4100ZL.
	March 2008	Dr. Gunther Kraft left our group to join Fuchs Petrolub.
	March 2008	We have a new Nicolet 6700 FT-IR spectrometer that will be used at the GSI for measurements of the degradation of polymers under ion irradiation.
	January 2008	Ahmed Younis from Egypt joined our group.
	November 2007	Dr. Sergej Duvanov from the Institute of Applied Physics of NAS of Ukraine, Sumy, is a visiting scientist until February.
	November 2007	Mario Böhme joined our group to work on the characterisation of nanotubes, a project in collaboration with the GSI.
	November 2007	Guided tour at the ESOC facilities in Darmstadt.
	November 2007	Prof. K. Baba from the Industrial Technology Center of Nagasaki, Japan, gave a talk on the "Formation of Diamond-like Carbon Films with Hydrocarbon Gases" during his visit to Darmstadt.
	November 2007	Dr. Nhu-Tarnawska Hoa Kim Ngan from the Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University of Cracow, is a visiting scientist for the next months.
	October 2007	Engy El Haddad from the National Institute of Oceanography&Fisheries, Egypt, joined our group.
	June 2007	Markus Krause joined our group to work on the characterisation of ion irradiated graphite, a project in collaboration with the GSI.
	May 2007	Dr. Adam Balogh joined our group.
	April 2007	Stefan Hummelt joined our group to work on the defect structure and diffusion in ferroelectric materials, a project within the SFB595.
	March 2007	Congratulations to the marriage! The group wishes Mubarak all the best.