Associates Overview
Guest Researchers
The AMC invites outstanding researchers from various disciplines, especially from abroad, as guests for longer and shorter stays. They are usually in close exchange with individual subprojects and support the project staff with their expertise. In lecture formats, they present their own research and discuss it together with the staff. At the end of each stay, the results obtained are published in joint publications. Proposals and invitations for guest researchers can be submitted to the AMC at any time.
Associated industry partners
Associated industry partners support the AMC in order to accelerate the transfer into application. In this way, the bridge between pure basic research and industry is to be further expanded. Along associated industry partners the technological value chain is bundled and a high relevance in practice is generated. Proposals for the association of industrial partners can be formulated by any AMC scientist to the AMC Executive Director. The speakers finally decide on an association.
Associated Scientists
Associated scientists and research groups whose scientific profile is closely related to the AMC and its projects. Associates are invited to participate in all AMC events and are supported by the AMC in the realization of their own projects. Proposals and invitations can be formulated by any AMC scientist to the AMC Executive Director. The spokespersons finally decide on an association.
Alumni
The circle of alumni includes all former employees, former guest scientists and former associated members of the AMC. Even after the official departure, the alumni continue to work together on the mutual use of the experience potential and on the development of a network. Likewise, the AMC should receive new impulses from its alumni.
is investigating the usability of prefabricated fibre reinforcement produced in a robotic winding process for different AM methods. He’s developing an automated production process of the fibre reinforcement for the special needs of the project. This includes the investigation of the most suitable reinforcement geometry, the build-up of a dynamic winding machine and the integration of it into a robotic winding process.
AMC-Mercator-Fellow Prof. Dr. Nicolas Roussel is in charge of the research activities dealing with rheology and processing of construction materials at the Navier Laboratory, FRANCE. He is the founding editor of the RILEM technical letters journal, president of the RILEM association and has received in 2007 the Robert L’Hermite award for his work on rheology of fresh concrete. With a Thompson Reuters H-index of 54 and more than 8.000 citations, he is the author or co-author of more than 130 papers in scientific journals such as Cement and Concrete Research, Physical Review letters or Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. His research focus spreads from concrete rheology and rheometry to the understanding of construction processing technologies. Thereby his work covers various technology readiness levels and includes mixing and dispersion, centrifugation and granulation, vibration and compaction, molding, spraying and coating along with automation in construction. In 2022, Nicolas Roussel was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honor of his contribution to the AMC. Within the context of its AMC cooperation, he recently contributed to a workshop on “Materials and Processes in Additive Manufacturing” at TUBS, having the opportunity to see and discuss the research results and outputs of several AMC PhD and post doc researchers. This intensive exchange has led to the planning of a number of joint and collective publications dealing with the rheology and thixotropy of cement-based materials. According to Nicolas Roussel, the cooperation with the AMC as AMC-Mercator-Fellow “offers the opportunity to directly interact with high-level PhD students also in the coming years and thus to foster the AMC’s strategic topics for the European industry”. As a result of the above interactions, Prof. Dirk Lowke and Prof. Nicolas Roussel are planning for the submission of Franco-German ANR/DFG research project.
is a research associate at the Chair of Welding Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology. His focus is additive manufacturing with wire and arc (DED-Arc). He is particularly concerned with process control and the properties of additively manufactured components made of high-strength filler materials.
was a scientific researcher in A08, with experience in concrete extrusion as well as in selective binding of cement. She was responsible for the cross-project coordination and organization at the TUM AMC Lab and was supporting the different projects in their planning and execution of experiments.
Virginia San Fratello is an architect, artist, and educator. She is Chair of The Department of Design at San José State University in Silicon Valley. San Fratello is a winner of the United States National Design Award for Digital Design, an International Interior Design Educator of the Year Award, and is also a winner of the Metropolis Magazine Next Gen Design Competition. Her creative practice, Rael San Fratello, was named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League of New York, and in 2021, they were awarded the Beazley Design of the Year. San Fratello is the co-author of Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing, a book that reexamines the building process from the bottom up and offers illuminating case studies for 3D printing with materials like chardonnay grape skins, salt, earth, and sawdust. She is a partner in Emerging Objects, a creatively driven, 3D Printing MAKE-tank specializing in innovations in 3D printing architecture, and a co-founder of Forust, a start-up focused on wood waste and additive manufacturing. Her work is recognized by several institutions, including The National Building Museum, the Bellevue Museum, For Freedoms, and is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai, LACMA, and the Design Museum in London. San Fratello will serve as a role model and mentor for AMC researchers and students across partner institutions and will be engaged in a collaborative exchange that aims to bring state-of-the-art mobile robotic systems together with earthen spray and traditional wattle-and-daub construction methods to explore new paradigms in earth-centered construction. Her expertise in bridging traditional material practices with digital fabrication presents a unique opportunity to position this project at the intersection of architectural innovation, sustainability, and material research.
is a PhD. Researcher working under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Borrmann and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Petzold. In this capacity, on one hand, he is responsible for the investigation of the design and implementation of Virtual Research Environment (VRE). And the definition of new features in VRE. On the other hand, he is responsible for the investigation of the Data management and publication platform. And the definition of data management policy and plans. Moreover, he is responsible for the coordination and collaboration and, conducting training sessions and workshops to facilitate the adoption of these platforms in the context of TRR 277.
Dr. Ryan J. Sherman, P.E., is an Associate Professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His expertise encompasses the material behavior and structural performance of metallic wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), as well as large scale structural testing, fielding monitoring of in-service structures, and steel bridge design and evaluation. His current research focuses on the use of WAAM to advance the design of steel structures and on integrating advanced testing and monitoring to validate performance. Professor Sherman currently serves as the Chair of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Additive Manufacturing Exploratory Task Force and leads the AISC AM Demonstration Bridge Project. He will be commencing a collaboration with AMC project A07 (Hensel/Kloft/Unglaub). The collaboration between Professor Sherman and AMC aims to develop, manufacture, and test a large-scale demonstrator to advance high-level research on AM of steel structures. The demonstrator will combine Professor Sherman‘s expertise in WAAM, material and structural testing, and bridge engineering with AMC’s strengths in advanced manufacturing, design optimization, and physical and virtual component testing. The research will encompass a range of topics, including the combination of semi-finished parts and WAAM nodal connectors manufactured with as-built surfaces. These innovations have the potential to transform the approach in modern structural engineering, enhancing strength, durability, and design flexibility. The Mercator Fellowship will concentrate on fatigue performance, buckling behavior, and large-scale component performance of metallic WAAM structures.
is a doctoral researcher and expert on additive manufacturing in construction. His previous work includes extrusion as well as selective binding processes of concrete. He will be responsible at TUM-HBB for all the collaborative work to be executed in conjunction with WKI in project A08, especially for WP 2.
is head of institute at IS. He coordinates all scientific and organisational work regarding testing and material modelling.
is a postdoctoral researcher specialized in rheology. She was working with the material design and development for the project within the Workgroup of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Lowke.
is a research associate and group leader at the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation and co-supervises the research especially in WP2, WP 3 and parts of WP 4.
is a research associate at iBMB, Division of Concrete Construction of TU Braunschweig. He is responsible for experimental, theoretical and numerical research work.
Doctoral researcher: for the duration of the research project carrying out the scientific studies. He will execute the LPBF experiments, the thermographic imaging of the LPBF process, data analysis, methods for correlations and listing of guidelines for AM elements.
Henning Wessels completed his PhD on thermo-mechanical modeling of powder bed fusion processes at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) in 2019. During his Ph.D. he spent six months at the University of California, Berkeley. After a Postdoc at LUH, he has been appointed Assistant Professor for data-driven modeling and simulation of mechanical systems at the Technical University of Braunschweig in May 2021. His research aims to improve and augment physics-based numerical models from the field of computational mechanics using machine learning techniques. In the AMC, Henning Wessels is collaborating with Jonas Hensel and Stefan Kollmannsberger on data-driven approaches that help to decipher the process-structure-property (PSP) interaction inherent to additive manufacturing processes.
was head of the department additive manufacturing at the iwb and assists Prof. Zaeh in leading project A02 and A06. He was instructing and supporting the academic staff regarding LPBF and WAAM.
