Smart minds

LZH | Discovering a career with practical relevance: Young scientists have started a Voluntary Scientific Year or Niedersachsen Technikum at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) in order to start a career in science even before their studies.

match | The SPP2100 student team won the Manipulation Challenge at the RoboSoft conference with a specially developed pneumatic gripper. The competition consisted of gripping various fruits without damaging them.

IFW | IPH | LZH | He supervised 257 scientific employees as a doctoral supervisor. He has left his mark on manufacturing technology and has been awarded numerous honorary doctorates and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Today Professor Hans Kurt Tönshoff celebrates his 90th birthday.

match | Liubov Marchuk from the National Technical University of Ukraine in Kyiv is completing a three-month research stay at the Institute of Assembly Technology (match) to gain insights into the research field of soft robotics.

ITA | Can rubber be 3D printed? How far away are we from self-printed action figures or bouncy balls? Sebastian Leineweber received the Best Paper Award from the journal RCT at the International Elastomer Conference (IEC) for answering these and other questions.

ITA | How can polymer optical waveguides be manufactured on 3D circuit carriers? This is what physicist Laura Fütterer at the Institute of Transport and Automation Technology (ITA) is researching. She received the Best Paper Award at the International MID Congress.

IFW | The International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) has elected Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Bergmann, Head of Manufacturing Processes at IFW, as one of 150 Associate Members worldwide, thus honoring Bergmann’s scientific achievements.

IKK | Meret Jürgens is one of 60 scholarship holders of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU). She is working on her doctorate on circular economy concepts for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at the Institute of Plastics and Circular Economy (IKK).

ITA | HITec | Production in Space: This is the specialty of Dr.-Ing. Christoph Lotz. He coordinates experiments in weightlessness as well as partial gravity and comes into contact with very different topics – from quantum physics to additive manufacturing.