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Date Announced: 20 Jan 2012
Engineer wants to build bridges between laser institutes and industrial firms.
As of January 1st, 2012, Dr.-Ing. Stefan Kaierle is the new Head of the Materials and Processes Department of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH). After focusing for many years on production-technical themes, the electrical engineer will be working on process monitoring and quality assurance topics in the future.
Stefan Kaierle finished his doctorate degree at the RWTH in Aachen in 1998, on the topic of "Autonomous Production Cells for Laser Welding". Subsequently, he started working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), and in his time there he was the head of several departments – lastly in the field of system technology, where he worked with all laser processes, especially those used in laser material processing.
He was especially concerned with using laser processing in concrete applications. “I think it is important to bring research from the labs to the shop floor, to build a bridge between the laser institutes and industrial firms,” says Kaierle. Process monitoring and quality assurance play a special role here.
These areas are of special importance for the 46 year old engineer in his work in the Materials and Processes Department. These research fields are equally interesting for the automobile, aeronautics, tools and machines, and bio-medicine technology branches, and range from welding and cutting metals, to surface technologies such as repair processes or rapid prototyping, laser safety, laser-guided TIG/MIG welding or process analysis and simulation.
Apart from his work as department head at the LZH, Stefan Kaierle is editor-in-chief of the journals “LIGHT – Science & Applications”, and head of the board of the European Laser Institute (ELI), a European network for bringing existing know-how in laser technology together, and supporting innovative developments in the field of laser technology and photonics.
Also, Kaierle has had good connections to China for several years. Since 2007 he has been a guest professor at the Beijing University (BUT), and in 2011 he organized the 1st International Conference on Frontiers of Laser Processing (ICFL) together with other Chinese laser institutes. The conference was held at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics and will take place every two years.
Kaierle’s predecessor as department head, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Barcikowski, followed a call to the faculty for technical chemistry I at the University of Duisburg-Essen last year.
Source: Laser Zentrum Hannover
E-mail: via web site
Web Site: www.lzh.de
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