Current Employees

Head of Institute

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Drummer

Secretariat and Administration

Kerstin Stirnweiß-Schmidt

Chief Engineer

Dr.-Ing. Tobias Kleffel

Head of Department

Additive Manufacturing
Samuel Schlicht, M.Sc.

New Materials and Material Properties
Dr.-Ing. Benedikt Roth

Processing
Dr.-Ing. Uta Rösel

Joining Technology and Tribology
Dr.-Ing. Tobias Kleffel

Laboratories
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Gabriela Riedel

Scientific Assistants

Ayse Aksungur, M.Sc.
Simon Cholewa, M.Sc.
Daniel Fleischhauer, M.Sc.
Thomas Forstner, M.Eng.
Jan Gavelek, M.Sc.
Saikrishna Gunnamreddy, M.Sc.
Christoph Herzog, M.Sc.
Anke Kaufmann, M.Sc.
Aryan Oktaee, M.Sc.
Julian Popp, M.Sc.
Manuel Romeis, M.Sc.
Dr.-Ing. Uta Rösel
Dr.-Ing. Benedikt Roth
Paul Roumeliotis, M.Sc.
Samuel Schlicht, M.Sc., M.Sc.

Accounting

Angela Bayer
Katrin Dröge
Stephanie Hayer

Analytics

Pia Trawiel (Head of Laboratory)
Vera Bauer
Doreen Frei
Judita Hudi
Jürgen König

Contact Person: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Gabriela Riedel

Microscopy

Marion Untheim (Head of Laboratory)
Elke Seibold-Gottschlick

Contact Person: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Gabriela Riedel

Mechanical Testing

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Jürgen Karsten (Head of Laboratory)
Michael Eiselt, B. Eng.

Contact Person: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Gabriela Riedel

Tribology

Siegfried Bernhardt

Contact Person: Christoph Herzog, M.Sc.

Technical Center

Sergej Tkatschjow
Markus Schmidt
Maximilian Blank

Contact Person: Dr.-Ing. Tobias Kleffel

Electronics Laboratory

Bavarian Polymer Institute BPI, Location Fürth

Administration
Katrin Dröge

Technical Employees
Marcus Brütting

Public Relation

Anke Kaufmann, M.Sc.

Human Resources

Dr.-Ing. Uta Rösel

Safety Representative (according to SGB VII)

Daniel Fleischhauer, M.Sc.

Webmaster

Anke Kaufmann, M.Sc.