Javad Mola is trying to make steel lighter and more durable, and the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology is providing him with the perfect opportunity to do it.

Mola heads a project at the university’s Institute for Iron Research, and is experimenting with ceramo-metallic alloys that can be tailored to specific applications in car or airplane manufacturing. We went to talk with the ambitious young metallurgist. "Brilliant Minds” is a series of reports on Tomorrow Today that introduces up-and-coming young scientists from all over the world who have come to live and work in Germany.