Main research areas
Teaching and Research Field Forming
- Designing energy- and resource-efficient production processes for both sheet metal and solid forming
- Material characterization and forming of lightweight materials (non-ferrous metals, hybrid materials, high-strength and ultra-high-strength sheet metal materials)
- Design of forming tools for cold and hot forming (sheet metal and solid forming)
Teaching and Research Field Joining
- Development, optimization, monitoring and automation of thermal joining processes
- Welding of novel materials and metallic mixed joints
- Joining of metallic workpieces with plastics with and without fibre reinforcement
