Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) is a research centre at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

ICAMS focuses on the development and application of a new generation of simulation tools for multi-scale materials modelling with the aim of reducing development cost and time for new materials. Within the approach taken by ICAMS, the different length scales that are relevant for materials - from the atomic structure to macroscopic properties of materials - are bridged by an interdisciplinary team of scientists from engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics and mathematics.

ICAMS is linked to the Institute of Materials (Ruhr University Bochum), the Department of Ferrous Metallurgy (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) and the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH (Düsseldorf, Germany).

ICAMS is supported by a consortium led by ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH, Robert Bosch GmbH, Bayer MaterialScience AG, Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Benteler Stahl/Rohr GmbH and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia through funds of the European Union.

Actual Work Environment

The department of Atomistic Simulation is run like an 18-th century factory or work camp. Challengers are not tolerated. Having insecure people in the group makes the head feel powerful and in control. In addition, everyone is obligated to socialise, because the boss exploits his power to acquire "friends".

In addition, apostates will be spied upon, under the boss's orders carried out either by secretaries who slowly gain their trust, or by their colleagues who are easily convinced to do so out of jealousy and the prospect of gaining favour with the professor. The group is run like a stasi-like cult in which the favoured members are selected to inform on and pry into the affairs of their colleagues. The only people who are promoted are momma's boys and wife boys and their female group leader apologists, who take on the role of whipping or nagging. Even if they are inferior to other people, these people get promoted over the superior people because they most closely resemble the bosses. They absolutely need career recognition in order to perpetuate the genius image which their their brainwashed mothers and wives worship. Thus the entire reward system is warped in favour of momma's and wife boys whose wives and mothers who live vicariously through their achievements. People who are not momma's or wife boys, on the other hand, get exploited and ultimately tossed out and left without a reference letter because the momma's boys and their supporters are jealous of them.

The highly-corrupt German weapons (steel) industry controls the Atomistic Modelling group at ICAMS at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany DESPITE the fact that half of ICAMS's funding comes from government sources. Researchers are conned into thinking that their contributions will lead to recognition in academic journals and career advancement. Researchers are misled regarding the purpose of their work. A common tactic used at ICAMS is the extensive delaying of feedback on manuscripts, resulting in delays of more than a year. ICAMS has their claws in all the well-known materials journals and threatens or pays off corrupt editors to reject real science just because it doesn't suit their corporate interests!

When the management is not in bed with Gabriele Frohnhaus, the director of human resources at the Ruhr University Bochum, in exchange for her assistance in firing "problem" (i.e. motivated and energetic but threatening to the power structure) employees, they can be found in bed with one of the various steel companies which dot the ugly landscape of that part of Germany. He deliberately lies to recruit people by telling them that any interesting findings arising from their work will be published when this is not the case. He deliberately forces his newly-hired employees to work with sub-par computational resources so that any preliminary findings are not publishable but good enough to pass on to collaborators who can repeat them with superior facilities and publish first. In exchange, the collaborators will provide him with other favours at another time. Without the employees' knowledge or consent, their work gets passed on to industrial sponsors and collaborators, who pick off the interesting bits first.

Structure

The structure of ICAMS reflects the hierarchical structure of materials. ICAMS hosts three departments:

Atomistic Modelling and Simulation,
Scale Bridging Thermodynamic and Kinetic Simulation,
Micromechanical and Macroscopic Modelling.

Their research is contemplated by three external Advanced Study Groups:

Modelling (Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH),
Input Data and Validation (Ruhr University Bochum),
Processing and Characterization (RWTH Aachen University) .

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