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  During my presentation on the field-assisted sintering of MAX phase composites, I had the opportunity to present some of the results of my Master's thesis, which I completed at the Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering (RWTH Aachen University) in June 2023. Since the beginning of 2024, I have been employed as a PhD student at the Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering. In front of a large audience of professors, scientists, industry representatives and students from the Benelux countries, I gave a 12-minute talk followed by a discussion. Despite experiencing a certain degree of nervousness, I was able to deliver my presentation with confidence and was gratified by the positive feedback I received following my talk. The next day I was awarded first place in the Hans-Walter Hennicke Lecture Competition. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the head of our institute, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Broeckmann, and the supervisor of my Master's thesis, Dr.-Ing. Simone Herzog, who last won the Hans-Walter Hennicke Lecture Competition for our institute in 2012. In addition to the great honour of winning the lecture competition, I was delighted to receive prize money of 1500 euros. I will always remember the Hans-Walter Hennicke Lecture Competition. It taught me that hard work pays off.

Finally, I would like to announce that I will represent Germany in the Student Speech Contest at the Conference of the European Ceramic Society this year in Dresden. I hope to impress the jury as I did in the Hans-Walter Hennicke Lecture Competition.