Contact and Organizers

Tim Stauch is a tenure-track professor for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bremen. He obtained his PhD in the group of Andreas Dreuw in Heidelberg and worked as a postdoc with Martin Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on computational materials science and deformed…

Hanna Lührs is the science manager of the MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes since 2015 and teaching in the masters programme process-oriented materials research. She did her PhD at the University of Bremen in Crystallography and has a background in geosciences and materials mineralogy.

Katharina Koschek is currently head of Department Polymeric Materials and Mechanical Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM in Bremen where she works since 2012. After studying chemistry in Leibzig she did her PhD at the Freie Universität Berlin…

Michael Maas is a senior scientist at the Advanced Ceramics group at the University of Bremen. He studied chemistry at TU Dortmund and completed his PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2008, also at TU Dortmund. He then spent two years as a postdoc at Stanford University after which he joined the…

Maciej Sznajder is a scientific co-worked at the Institute of Space Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Bremen. He studied computational astrophysics at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland where he also obtained his first PhD in theoretical physics in 2013. And second, in the…

Patric Seefeldt is a 39 years old mechanical engineer with a diploma (RWTH Aachen 2010) and a PhD (University of Bremen 2018). As deputy head of the Mechanics and Thermal Systems Department (since 2016) and head of the Material Aging Group (since 2019) at DLRs’ Institute of Space Systems, he is…