PhD Student
Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf, Germany
Materials science | Sustainable metallurgy
Materials science, metallurgy, and sustainable metals processing.
I am a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf, Germany. My research focuses on hydrogen plasmas for sustainable production of metals and recycling.
About
From curiosity about materials to sustainable processing.
Materials have fascinated me since I began studying metallurgical and materials engineering in 2016. I am especially interested in the atomic and sub-atomic scale, where structure, defects, interfaces, and chemistry control the properties we observe at larger scales.
My interests include solid-state physics, physical metallurgy, plasticity of materials, nano-characterization techniques, atomistic simulations, and sustainable metals processing. I have worked with molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations to investigate grain-boundary segregation in alloys, and with nano-characterization methods to study low-temperature thermoelectric materials.
Education
Academic path
Master of Science, Metallurgical Engineering
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Thesis 1: Atomistic insights into understanding segregation in Mg alloys
Thesis 2: Characterization of low-temperature thermoelectric alloys
Bachelor of Technology, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India
Thesis: Synthesis and characterization of medium-entropy alloys
Publications
Selected work
- Nathalia C. Verissimo, Anumoy Ganguly, Lucas Varoto, Tim M. Schwarz, Jean-Baptiste Letz, Ubaid Manzoor, Laurine Choisez, Dierk Raabe, and Isnaldi R. Souza Filho. “Recycling of Mill Scale Into High-Purity Iron Through Hydrogen-Based Reduction.” steel research international 97, no. 8 (2026), 4162-4175. doi:10.1002/srin.202501070
- Henna-Riikka Putaala, Henri Pauna, Areej Javed, Ubaid Manzoor, Dennis Klapproth, Isnaldi R. Souza Filho, Ville-Valtteri Visuri, Anumoy Ganguly, Marko Huttula, Timo Fabritius, and Dierk Raabe. “Effect of Furnace Parameters on Optical Emission Spectra of Hematite Reduction by Hydrogen Plasma.” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 56 (2025), 3381-3399. doi:10.1007/s11663-025-03552-5
- Anumoy Ganguly, Hexin Wang, Julien Guénolé, Aruna Prakash, Sandra Korte-Kerzel, Talal Al-Samman, and Zhuocheng Xie. “Grain boundary segregation spectrum in basal-textured Mg alloys: From solute decoration to structural transition.” Acta Materialia 283 (2025), 120556. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2024.120556
- Anumoy Ganguly, Shiv Shankar, Ashish Das, Mukul Shukla, Chetan Swaroop, and Tarun Bhardwaj. “Natural fibre reinforced composites: A review based on additive manufacturing routes and biodegradability perspective.” Materials Today: Proceedings 62, part 1 (2022), 131-135. doi:10.1016/j.matpr.2022.02.607