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A Chinese Scientist announced as winner of 2019 ESAS Award for Excellence in Applied Superconductivity The European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS) announced that the 2019 ESAS Award for Excellence in Applied Superconductivity is awarded to Prof. Yanwei Ma from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS) for his outstanding contributions to the development of superconductive wires with potentially very high impact for applications. This biennial award, which recognizes excellence in advancing the knowledge of applied superconductivity over the past five years, will be bestowed to Prof. Ma at the 2019 European Conference on Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS) held in the UK in September, when he will give a plenary presentation after the award ceremony. Prof. Ma is the head of the Department of New Superconducting and Energy Materials in IEECAS. Since the discovery of iron-based superconductors in 2008, he led his group to develop high-performance wires with these new materials to promote their applications. As highlighted in the announcement by ESAS, based on key fundamental insight and understanding of superconducting properties of materials and envisioning their potential, Prof. Ma designed the required, often novel, technologies for their processing. Outstanding in recent years are the innovative concepts developed for the processing and manufacture of Fe-based superconductors, with their robustness to high magnetic fields and their small electromagnetic anisotropy. Upon tailoring appropriate powder-in-tube processing technologies, wires could be processed with in-field critical currents exceeding the widely accepted threshold for practical application, reaching new milestones. 
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