Welcome to the official website of the

Nanojoining and Microjoining (NMJ) Association

The NMJ Association is a non-profit international association, founded on October 16th, 2019 at Empa Dübendorf, Switzerland by Lars P.H. Jeurgens (President), Tomokazu Sano (Secretary) and Jolanta Janczak-Rusch (Treasurer) on behalf of the partner institutions from Canada, China, Japan and the USA.

The NMJ Association strives to:

• push the development of Nanojoining and Microjoining as a new scientific discipline and technology
• bring together experts from academia and industry to stimulate know-how exchange and international collaborations in the field of Nanojoining and Microjoining
• organize education and training events on Nanojoining and Microjoining technologies
• provide guidelines for the organization of NMJ Conferences, such as:
              – evaluate and select the venue of upcoming NMJ Conference
              – disseminate and communicate the NMJ Conferences’ outcome in special issues of peer-reviewed journals
              – evaluate and assign NMJ Student Travel Grants for attending the NMJ conference
              – nominate and grant NMJ Awards for outstanding scientific achievements achievement in the field