The Institute of Materials Research congratulates Peter-Philipp Bauer on the successful defence of his dissertation entitled "Integrated approach to the development and investigation of Al-Si based oxidation protection coatings for γ-TiAl" at RWTH Aachen University in the department of Prof. Jochen Schneider. Within the last four years, he worked in the high temperature and functional coatings department of Prof. Uwe Schulz where he was supervised by Dr. Nadine Laska. His thesis was conducted under the DFG grant TIALMET (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/380687629?language=en) in close collaboration with his partners from the Łukasiewicz – Instytut Metalurgii Żelaza in Gliwice, Poland and the IAM-WK: Institute for Applied Materials, KIT in Karlsruhe. The consortium was able to publish seven papers demonstrating the potential of coated γ-TiAl blades in turbine engines to enable more efficient flying.