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M. A. Ilayda Memis

She is a doctoral researcher at the Chair of Architectural Informatics at TUM. She is part of the team who is working on the TUM Workbench. She is responsible for conceptualizing and preparing educational tutorials for other researchers to understand and use the data management platform.

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.

B. Sc. Annahita Meshkini

She supported as an AMC Researcher the Project A 04.

Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Müller

was a doctoral researcher for the duration of the research project carrying out the scientific studies. He will carry out the scientific studies: Design of WAAM components, creation of a design process for WAAM, creation of sample geometries.

M. Sc. Johanna Müller

was a doctoral researcher at ifs. She is responsible for the planning and execution of all scientific work, both numerical and experimental, in the framework of WAAM. This includes welding experiments, metal- lographic characterisation and material testing. She further analysis all data, prepares reports, presentations and publications.

Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Mungenast

He supported the contributers of the Central Tasks of the AMC.

Dr.-Ing. Reza Najian Asl

Reza is postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Structural Analysis, Prof. K.-U. Bletzinger. Having carried out successfully a number of projects, mainly from the industry, he has gained a wealth of experience and knowledge in numerical analysis, design and optimization of coupled problems. In the frame of C02, he is developing software and methods for multi-disciplinary multi-scale optimization with special considerations for Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC). His contributions can be applied in all stages of the development cycle including manufacturing constraints.

Dipl.-Ing. Anne Niemann

She was the administrative co-coordinator. She was supporting Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Kloft and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler incoordinating the general public relation matters. Additionally, she will support Dr.-Ing- Jeldrik Mainka in TUM-related day-to-day management issues of TRR 277.

Peikko Deutschland GmbH

Peikko Deutschland GmbH supports the TRR277 with its know-how and special production possibilities of connection and reinforcement systems. Particularly sub-project A04 deals with these topics and the integration of different components in the Shotcrete 3D printing process.

Ass. Prof. Dr. Mariana Popescu AMC-MERCATOR-FELLOW

AMC-Mercator-Fellow Asst. Prof. Dr. Mariana Popescu is from the TU Delft and within architectural design, her area of expertise is computational and parametric design with a focus on digital fabrication and sustainable design. Her extensive involvement research projects related to promoting sustainability has led to a multilateral development of skills, which combine the fields of architecture, engineering, computational design, and digital fabrication. More specifically, her research is centred around digitally fabricated stay-in-place formwork systems for complex concrete geometries using 3D-knitting techniques. Her interest in additive manufacturing technologies, structural efficiency, and fabrication with material effectiveness is closely related the research of TRR 277 Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC). In 2022, Mariana Popescu was appointed as AMC-Mercator-Fellow by the TRR 277 AMC in honor of her contribution to the AMC One of her contributions within the AMC was the joint development of a cross-university student summer school/ seminar between TU Munich, TU Braunschweig, and TU Delft in 2022 and 2023. The seminar aims to bridge fundamental principles of geometric computation and design and use these insights to develop new algorithms and tools for 3D shape generation, simulation, structural design, and manufacturing in design and engineering. Students joining from all three institutions are taught innovative computational design solutions for advanced manufacturing and construction at various scales through the development of a textile reinforced bridge demonstrator. The prototype combines digital from finding techniques, 3D knitted flexible formworks, and shotcrete 3D printing, thus bringing together researchers from several projects within the AMC (C06, A04, B04, C02, C03, C04). The cooperation with the AMC has made it possible to scale-up and automate a previously developed technique. This is an important contribution as it takes one step closer to being able to apply these methods in a real-world environment in terms of construction. Moreover, in bringing together researchers and teaching students from different universities and different faculties the completion of the prototype also proves the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration and, importantly, the education of a new type of professional in the field of construction. Beyond this collaboration phase, new synergies have been created with researchers from the AMC and a sustained collaboration beyond the term of the fellowship is expected to emerge. In the short term this can be started through joint guidance of master thesis students. Finally, Within the remaining time of the collaboration in 2023, the aim is to distil the opportunities and challenges identified within the development of the prototype and develop a joint research grant proposal that would enable a sustained collaboration.