Awards and Achievements

Qing Chen Becomes Adjunct Professor at KTH

In 2022 Dr. Qing Chen, Chief Scientific Officer and Director of Research & Innovation at Thermo-Calc Software, became an Adjunct Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

As Adjunct Professor in Applied Thermodynamic Modeling at KTH, Prof. Chen plays a role as a bridge-builder connecting academia and industry. He brings his expertise and contributes to research and education at KTH, and meanwhile benefits from direct contact with educators and students at the frontier of science, as well as enhancing existing and new collaborations between Thermo-Calc Software and KTH.

John Ågren Receives the 2021 J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award

Prof. Ågren, FASM, Professor Emeritus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Senior Scientific Adviser at Thermo-Calc Software, was in 2021 named the recipient of the J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award. The Gibbs Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of phase equilibria, honored Prof. Ågren “For pioneering work in the field of computational thermodynamics and kinetics and their application to materials design and process improvement.”

The Gibbs Award was established in 2007 in the name of J. Willard Gibbs, one of America’s greatest theoretical scientists. The J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award is endowed by QuesTek Innovations LLC.

Thermo-Calc Software Receives the ASM Pacesetter Award

Thermo-Calc Software was honored to receive the 2019 ASM Pacesetter Award for contributions to education in the fields of materials science and engineering. The ASM Pacesetter award was established in 2009 to honor organizations that support the ASM Materials Education Foundation in their mission of advancing scientific and engineering knowledge through support of education and research. The award is given annually and previous recipients include Chevron, NACE International Foundation and ONR – Office Naval Research. Thermo-Calc Software is proud to support the ASM Materials Education Foundation and honored to be a part of such a prestigious group of recipients.

John Ågren Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering

Prof. John Ågren, Senior Scientific Adviser at Thermo-Calc Software was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election into this prestigious group is considered to be one of the highest honors an engineer can receive in their career. He is a professor of materials science and engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, and was honored by the NAE “for development of integrated thermodynamics and kinetics analysis tools enabling computational materials engineering.”

Bo Sundman and John Ågren Win the NIMS Award

Dr. Sundman and Dr. Ågren, original developers of Thermo-Calc, were two of the recipients of the 2017 NIMS Award. The third recipient was Dr. Kiyohito Ishida. The NIMS Award has been given out since 2007 and is given to researchers with outstanding achievements in the development of scientific technologies for application in various substances and materials. Scientists are nominated from around the world and winners are selected after a rigorous examination by a panel of scholarly experts.

Lina Kjellqvist Receives the Best Paper Award in the CALPHAD Annual Awards 

Dr. Lina Kjellqvist, Database Developer at Thermo-Calc Software was awarded with the 2010 Best Paper Award in the CALPHAD Annual Awards, with the paper “Parameters in the compound energy formalism for ionic systems” (Authors: Lina Kjellqvist, Mats Hillert, Huahai Mao, Malin Selleby & Bo Sundman).

The paper for the Best Paper Award is voted by the CALPHAD Advisory and Editorial Board members.