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Sido Sinnema graduated from the University of Groningen (NL) with a Master’s degree on Applied Physics (1984). He concluded his PhD studies in 1988 with a thesis on the Magnetic Interactions in Rare Earth 3d Intermetallic Compounds. He is working as a Knowledge Group Leader within TATA Steel Research & Development in the Ceramics Research Centre on Materials Engineering and Mathematical Modelling.
Sinnema was Secretary and Chairman of the Dutch Ceramic Society (NKV), respectively (2001-2014).
Since 2014 till present he has been Executive Member of Board and Secretary of the Federation for International Refractory Research and Education (F.I.R.E.), involving 10 leading universities and institutes in the field and 13 key refractories industries in the world.