Secondment of Abengoa staff to HZDR (November 2015)

In November 2015, staff from Abengoa Research (Maria Lopez, Irene Heras, Gonzalo Rincon and Ramon Escobar) stayed at HZDR in order to continue with their respective secondments.

Maria Lopez fulfil her first week in HZDR where she learned how to work with in situ Raman and ion beam analysis.

Irene Heras, fulfil a whole month secondment in HZDR. She performed in-situ ellipsometry, NRA and RBS analysis at high temperature  and on November 17th she gave a seminar at the HZDR paper club where she explained the status of her PhD thesis.

Gonzalo Rincon completed his first secondment with a 15 days stay. He concluded the deposition of metals by PVD techniques (HiPIMS and Magnetron sputtering) and the characterization by profilometry, UV-Vis-NIR, ellipsometry and RBS.

 Finally, during his week Ramon Escobar managed the third Central Executive Board meeting of FRIENDS2 project together with the workpackages leaders.

There was also time for fun during the secondment. Ice hockey (Go Dresdner Eislöwen!!),  snooker, hiking… were among the different activities FRIENDS2 staff performed in their free time.