AMC TRR277 - Key Persons


Anika Kolbe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277

B.Sc. Cecilia S. Ahumada

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Dipl. Ing. Julia Fleckenstein

is a doctoral researcher at the TT Professorship for Digital Fabrication at TUM with background in architecture. In her research, she explores site-specific digital design tools for robotically fabricated real-size mono-component building envelopes. As part of her association with the AMC, she is part of the interdisciplinary teaching team for the project "From Additive Manufacturing to Architecture" in 2022 and contributes as Design Lead for the collaborative demonstrator "Breuer x AM".

Dipl.-Ing. Markus Köhler

he was an AMC Researcher in Focus Area A in the Project A 07.

Dr. Kevin Höfer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277
  • Chairman of Welding Technology and Is Responsible for the Department "Materials and Design
Kevin Hoefer works as a post-doc at the Chair of Welding Technology and is responsible for the department "Materials and Design". In the project, he supports Prof. Jonas Hensel in the administration and management of A07, in particular in the areas of welding experiments, metallographic characterisation and residual stress determination.

Dr. Knut Andreas Meyer

is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Applied Mechanics (TU Braunschweig). He is working in the intersection of Computational and Experimental Mechanics, dealing with, e.g., nonlinear, history-dependent materials as well as poromechanics.

Dr. rer. nat. Frauke Bunzel

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
has been working in the field of wood adhesives for many years. She gives guidance and support to the academic staff at WKI regarding the entire adhesive systems including adhesives, particles and pressing parameters.

Dr. Sc. Pierluigi D'Acunto

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader

Dr. Silke Sturm

Silke Sturm works at the University Library of the Technical University of Munich. In her function as Data Steward she is responsible for the Data Management strategies and support. She works on defining discipline-specific standards, repositories and research data infrastructure. Moreover, she develops new coaching material for various topics concerning best practices in research data management.

Dr.-Ing. Abtin Baghdadi

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate at Institute of Structural Design
is a research associate at Institute of Structural Design (ITE) of TU Braunschweig. He is responsible for experimental, theoretical and numerical research work as well as for the coordination of the cooperations within the SFB.

Dr.-Ing. André Hürkamp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277
  • Project Leader

Dr.-Ing. Julian Unglaub

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
is head of division Material behavior at IS and takes responsibility for management of this project in terms of content and organization. He supervises the research assistants of WG Thiele for novel material and component testing methods based on MultiCam Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and the development of complex material models to describe WAAM-component behavior.

Dr.-Ing. Klaudius Henke

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
has been working on additive manufacturing in construction for many years. This work also includes additive manufacturing with wood. He leads the project A08 and provides general guidance and support for the academic staff at HBB. In addition, he is responsible for the coordination of the proposed project within the TRR 277. He was a member of the AMC Board for the first funding period 2020-2023.

Dr.-Ing. Konstantin Kutscher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277
is the lead developer of the VirtualFluids software. In this function he is indispensable for the project as a new doc. res. could not possibly extend the existing framework (>700,000 lines of code) with the new models to be developed and adapted in WP 1-4. He is also experienced in conducting massively parallel runs on THIER-0 systems and analyzing huge data sets with more than 10 degrees of freedom.

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Kränkel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277

Dr.-Ing. Vittoria Laghi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277

Ing. Arno Kwade

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277
  • Project Leader
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arno Kwade is the head of the institute for particle technology. Also the head of iPAT and supports the academic staff regarding the conditioning of particle products.

Ing. Harald Kloft

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277
  • Project Leader
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft leads the scientific staff in the orientation and execution of the design process creation and supports them in an advisory capacity in the creation of test geometries and demonstrators. He is responsible for the content and organisational coordination of all work on the part of ITE. He instructs the research engineer at ITE in the conceptual structure, execution and evaluation of the theoretical and experimental research work. He is the spokesperson of the TRR 277. He serves as contact person for the DFG and represents the TRR 277 externally. Internally, Prof. Kloft is chairman of the executive board of TRR 277 as well as of the project leaders and the general assembly. He is responsible for the management and settlement of funds and for the convening of board meetings and general meetings in cooperation with 3). Additionally, he is involved in the coordination between the research projects and oversees the aims of TRR 277. Prof. Kloft is also responsible, assisted by 2), for the coordination of general public relation matters in close cooperation with the communication facilities TUBS Communications and Press Service (TUBS-CPS) and the TUM Corporate Communications Center (TUM CCC).

M. Sc. Birger Buschmann

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineer
  • Researcher

M. Sc. Jakob Blankenhagen

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
is a doctoral researcher: Conducts scientific studies for the duration of the research project. Performs mechanical testing, fatigue testing, fracture mechanics testing, metallurgical analysis, and investigates the influence of geometry on structural performance. Analyzes all data and prepares reports, presentations, and publications.

M. Sc. Siegfried Bähr

Job Titles:
  • Head of the Department
Siegfried Baehr is head of the department Additive Manufacturing at the iwb and assists Prof. Zaeh in leading the projects A02 and A06. He is instructing and supporting the academic staff regarding LPBF and WAAM.

Ms. Yonca Taube


Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Auer

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Roussel

Job Titles:
  • MERCATOR - FELLOW

Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Borrmann

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
acts as co-lead in project C04. He is responsible for leading and guiding WP2 and WP 3 and parts of WP 4. He is also responsible for coordinating the collaboration with other projects. He leads the doctoral researcher in the design and implementation of the virtual common research environment. He is responsible for the coordination of the projects in the TRR 277 and the coordination with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ).

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annika Raatz

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
as applicant, she will be responsible for the scientific management and coordination of project B04. In addition to supervising the content of the research assistant, she supports the coordination of the work and represents the project internally and externally as head of the institute.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Charlotte Thiel

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
is Professor of "Construction Materials " at Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. She is Head of Concrete Laboratory and Head of Construction Materials Laboratory. Furthermore she coordinates all scientific and organisational work regarding testing and material modelling.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hühne

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Gehlen

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Krafft

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Next AMC TRR 277
Prof. Krafft has provided significant support to the TRR277 project A06 at the metallography and thus contributes to the successful progress of the project A06.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Inka Mai

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael F. Zäh

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader
Guides the scientific staff in the execution of the LPBF experiments. He provides guidance in methods for analysing the main mechanisms of action and the correlation of the results for the whole process chain.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Jänicke

Job Titles:
  • Project Leader

Tim Bürchner

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Tim Bürchner is a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation at the TUM. In his research, he develops efficient, highly accurate and parallelizable methods for computational mechanics. For this purpose, workflows are designed to integrate geometric models of complex AM parts directly into the simulation of building scale models.