Prof. Don Dingwell – from LMU Munich – will talk about research on space-sourced building materials. The world expert in geomaterials will be a guest at the next Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar at Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

We invite you to the lecture "From experimental geoscience to lunar geoengineering", which will be given by Prof. Don Dingwell on 17 March in the Congress Centre of the Wrocław Tech (building D-20, ul. Janiszewskiego 8). The lecture will begin at 1.15 p.m. Admission is free, but advance registration via Evenea.pl is required.

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– Now we stand on the threshold of a new challenge – the engineering of the lunar, and eventually, the Martian surface. Tremendous multiple research goals await us including the generation of water, oxygen, 3He and structural building materials on the moon, all using local materials. The expertise from decades of high temperature manipulation of melted rocks in order to understand volcanoes is a near-ideal preparation for this task. I will try to explain where we stand in this exciting area – says prof. Dingwell

He is a professor emeritus of Mineralogy and Petrology at LMU Munich, and Director - Earth and Environment (to 10/2024). He has ca. 600 papers on geomaterials. His approach is fundamentally experimental and materials-based. He holds 12 scientific awards, 8 academy memberships, 6 honorary degrees and 3 national orders. He was President of the European Geoscience Union and the IAVCEI. He was Secretary-General of the European Research Council. He is currently President of the Academia Europaea.