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Tim Klotz successfully completed his Master's thesis "Optimization of Zinc Electrodeposition for Aqueous Battery Applications Through Electroplated Indium Substrates"  with an outstanding final grade of 1.17.

His thesis dealt with the electrodeposition of zinc, specifically examining the influence of various deposition parameters such as current density, mass loading, and the use of indium-based substrates. He shows how to create optimal conditions to enhance the efficiency of the negative electrode in an aqueous zinc-ion battery while minimizing side reactions by systematically varying above conditions.

We would like to congratulate Tim on this great success and wish him all the best for his professional and academic future.

Tim Klotz is currently working as a research assistant at the innovate! Center MATENA and is aiming for a doctorate in the special field "Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Systems" at the University of Bremen.

With her master's thesis ‘Image-based analysis of component geometry throughout the binder jetting printing process’, our ProMat graduate Maylin Homfeldt has won the prestigious Bremen Thesis Award 2024 in the field of natural sciences and engineering. We congratulate Maylin on this great success! 

With the aim to detect quality defects at an early stage, taking countermeasures and avoiding them in the future, Maylin's work demonstrated the successful use of a Contact Image Sensor (CIS) unit of a standard document scanner to generate images of the binders inserted during the AM process and evaluate them using an alogrithm. This enabled her to compare the actual binder insertion with the target binder insertion and determine geometric deviations.

This innovative approach convinced the jury of the Association of the Friends of the University of Bremen and Constructor University (unifreunde) and we are extremely happy about the honour as the best Master's thesis in the field of natural sciences and engineering. This makes Maylin Homfeldt the second graduate of our still relatively young masters degree programme to receive this award.

Maylin Homfeldt is currently a research scientist at the Lightweight Materials and Materials Science departments at the Leibniz - IWT.

The report on this year's award ceremony for a total of 8 prizewinners for outstanding master's and doctoral theses can be found here.

Exploring the potential of Explainable AI for the Qualification of Aircraft Quality Assurance Processes

19.07.2024: ProMat student Pascal Dinglinger  presented a collaborative work on the potential role of explainable artificial intelligence (xAI) in the development and qualification of perspective Aircraft Quality Assurance Processes. The respective case study utilised a computer vision-based model trained to predict material defects from process monitoring data in additive manufacturing. His and his colleagues' perspectives on an application context stimulated interesting interdisciplinary discussions with the conference audience. Our congratulations to Pascal on this successful conference contribution. 

To find out more details about this research work, please download the respective conference paper here

Great joy for ProMat graduate Maylin Homfeldt and the team of the ProMat study programme!

With a final grade of 1.04, Maylin Homfeldt completed her Master's degree programme with the predicate "with distinction" and achieving the best final grade of all previous Master's graduates from our programme. Her Master's thesis "Image-based analysis of component geometry throughout the binder jetting process" was awarded a straight 1.0!

We congratulate Maylin on her great success and wish her all the best for her professional and academic future.

Maylin Homfeldt is currently working as a research scientist in the Lightweight Materials and Materials Science departments at the Leibniz - IWT.

Our former Master's student Jan Yorrik Dietrich was awarded 3rd place in the Hamburg Aviation Young Talent Award for his Master's thesis "Ultrasonic welding of thermoplastic composites: Explicit dynamic analysis of heating mechanisms". We take this opportunity to talk to him about it. Click here for the interview.

Jan Yorrick Dietrich is currently working as a research assistant at the Fibre Institute Bremen in the area of modelling and simulation.

Eric Macke has won this year's Bremen Study Award for his thesis "Copper hexacyanoferrate as cathode material - an in-depth theoretical investigation with electronic structure methods"!

We had the chance to talk to him about this award and his plans for the future: here

Eric Macke is currently working as a PhD researcher in the Hybrid Materials Interfaces Group at the University Bremen.

The open curriculum offers the greatest possible freedom in designing one's own course of study around the individual study or research focus. Read more here.

Parallel to lectures, courses and the obligatory research stay abroad, students in the ProMat programme will be directly involved in the research activities of the University of Bremen: The ProMat course of study.

Research focus - supported by the individual curriculum and student work at the Faserinstitut (FIBRE). A report by ProMat student Jan Yorrick Dietrich: more.

The student Eric Macke spent four weeks of the mandatory research stay abroad at the Imperial College in London. Read more here.

In February 2018, an article was published in Bremen Uni-Schlüssel under the title "Jetzt studiere ich komplett quer" about the Process-Oriented Materials Research, ProMat degree programme: more.