Research Computational Materials Science; Fundamental issues in non–equilibrium phase transformations; Thermo-mechanical-magnetic coupling effects; Application of in-situ neutron and synchrotron diffraction tools, atom probe field ion microscopy and electron microscopy; Laser surfacing for improvement of structural and biomaterial surfaces; Novel phase transformation concepts to join nanostructured materials; Innovative Delivery of High-Performance Computational Models, Weld microstructure modeling based on thermodynamics and kinetics; Computer aided models to solve the industrial related problems