The Additive Manufacturing of Metals research group is dedicated to the development of new materials for additive manufacturing (AM). The high geometric flexibility in manufacturing combined with novel material concepts enables a range of innovative applications in various industries, e.g. turbomachinery, aerospace, energy production and medical technology. New alloys and compounds, such as ODS materials, eutectic alloys or multi-material composites, allow for increased sustainability compared to established materials as well as targeted and local optimisation of component properties. Material-adapted exposure strategies, temperature control and sophisticated materials engineering allow defects to be minimised, component performance to be improved and non-weldable alloys to be processed. The group's research encompasses the development of current and future structural materials with outstanding high temperature, mechanical, chemical or magnetic properties, while working to improve the environmental performance of the entire process chain. Powder production and electron beam and laser based manufacturing processes and equipment, including advanced sensing technologies, are continuously developed and researched by our experts in materials science, mechanical engineering and physics to deepen the understanding of interactions and correlations in the process-material property systems.

Group members

Group leader

Dr.-Ing. Rittinghaus, Silja-Katharina

PhD candidates

Ghasemi Kalash, Somayeh

Goßling, Mareen

Sharma, Garvit

Shokri, Hamed

Dr. Zhirnov, Ivan

Laboratory Engineer

Dr.-Ing. Erdmann, Ingo

Bachelor and Master Candidates

Borchert, Daniel

Farsen, Tim

Petenati, Jan Niklas

Student Research Assistant

Borchert, Daniel

Dell´Anno, Johanna

Fischer, Julian

Wiethoff, Nils

Former Assistants and Candidates

Aksoy, Adem

Behrens, Daniel

Borchert, Daniel

Korthaus, Nikolas

Makonin, Eduard (ext.)

Richter, Jasper

Vehrs, Jan Hendrik

Dr.-Ing. Wilms, Markus Benjamin