About 20 on-site and about 40 online participants accepted the invitation of the Young-DGM Aalen on 25 January 2023 to the lecture evening in the research building of Aalen University. Fabian Altermann and Dieter Neimke, employees of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden, reported in an entertaining way on their everyday work. They showed how criminal cases can be solved and perpetrators convicted with the help of material analysis. 

"The Young-DGM Aalen is a regional local group of students and doctoral candidates in the field of materials science and materials engineering," explains Felix Trauter, a student at Aalen University and organiser of the evening. The young scientists organise events and lectures related to materials science and materials engineering at different locations. 
The entertaining start to the year was recently given by Fabian Altermann and Dieter Neimke from the Federal Criminal Police Office, who gave exciting insights into the work of a forensic scientist. "With this, everything that a perpetrator leaves behind at the scene of a crime can be examined," the speakers emphasised. Whether fibres, gunshot residue, chemical substances or body fluids - thanks to X-ray fluorescence analysis, scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam microscopy or SEM-EDX particle analysis, even particles in the sub-micrometre range can be analysed in the most accurate way. "Planning for this year's lectures is already underway. Upcoming events will be announced promptly via the DGM website," Trauter said.