The Institute of Iron and Steel Technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is embedded in an environment rich in tradition with historically rooted high scientific quality. Ferrous metallurgy has been one of the fields of research and teaching at TU Bergakademie Freiberg since 1874. The material steel, which is the focus of ferrous metallurgy, is and will remain one of the most important construction materials in the future with growing requirements in the field of manufacturing and processing technologies and thus a central research focus of materials development.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Olena Volkova, Institute Director
In the field of metallurgy of iron and steel making, the Institute of Iron and Steel Technology deals in particular with:
- Fundamental investigations on the topics: Reduction, equilibria, atomisation and casting and solidification
- Thermophysical properties of liquid steels and slags
- Development of measurement methods.
Other research focuses at the Institute of Iron and Steel Technology are:
- the design, production and application of steels, as well as the characterisation of phase transformation behaviour and the resulting microstructure
- customised heat treatments for steel materials
- material development for additive manufacturing
- thermodynamic calculations.
Born on 16 July 1973 in Dnipro. July 1973 in Dnipro
1990 - 1995: Studied thermal engineering, automation and environmental protection of high-temperature equipment in metallurgy, State Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk
1995 - 1998: Research assistant, State Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Chair of Heat Engineering, Dnepropetrovsk
1999 - 2003: Doctoral studies, Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, supervisor: Prof. Dr habil. D. Janke
2003 - 2011: Research Assistant, Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
2011 - 2014: Head of Application Operations Control Systems Steel Plant OX1, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
2014 - 2015: Head of Optimisation/Control Systems Steelworks OX1 and OX2, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
since October 2015: Director of the Institute of Iron and Steel Technology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
since 2015: Director of the affiliated institute of TU Bergakademie Freiberg: STAHLZENTRUM GmbH
since 2018: Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
since 2018: Scientific Advisory Board of the affiliated institute of TU Bergakademie Freiberg: HAVER ENGINEERING GmbH
since 2019: Chairwoman of the University Health Management, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
since 2019: Board member of the VDEh
since 2019: Advisory Board of the International University Centre IUZ, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
since 2020: Board member of the Centre for High Temperature Material Conversion (ZeHS) and Head of the Competence Centre High Temperature Processes, TU Bergakademie Freiberg
2023 - 2024: Mentor, Leibniz Mentoring Programme
since 2024: Board member, Friends and Sponsors of TU Bergakademie Freiberg e. V.
since 2024: Visiting Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
member of Eisen- und Stahltechnologie Freiberg e.V.
reviewer for e.g. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, Steel Research International, Materials Science and Technology, Journal of sustainable Metallurgy, AIChE, Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, Ceramics International
reviewer for the Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium) and ERASMUS+
member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Minerals and Metallurgical and Materials
2003: Eduard Mauer Prize, Eisen- und Stahltechnologie Freiberg e. V.
2015: Steel Tomorrow 2015, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
2016-2019: Visiting Professor at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology, School of Materials and Metallurgy, China
since September 2018: Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Institute of Iron and Steel Technology
Leipziger Straße 34
D-09599 Freiberg
Tel.: +49 3731 39-3100
E-mail: volkova [at] iest [dot] tu-freiberg [dot] de (volkova[at]iest[dot]tu-freiberg[dot]de)
