The presentation Highlights the journey from ProMat Student to PhD research in additive manufacturing. Maylin Homfeldt’s PhD research focuses on the layer-based additive production of iron-based shape memory alloys, which presents both novel opportunities and inherent process-related phenomena that warrant thorough consideration. The elevated manganese content of these shape memory alloys poses a significant challenge to the additive manufacturing process: namely, the need to maintain the homogeneity of the alloy -and thereby its functional properties- throughout the entire component, or to exploit this variability in a deliberate and controlled manner.

Maylin Homfeldt was first drawn to Bremen by the  international and interdisciplinary Biomimetics Bachelor. Captivated by the city’s atmosphere she chose to pursue her Master’s degree here as well. Within the ProMat program, she was given the opportunity to tailor her studies thus laying a focused and deliberate foundation for her current position, which she holds since January 2024, as a PhD Student at the Leibniz-IWT. Motivated by the vast potential and evolving capabilities of additive manufacturing, she choose a number of specialized lectures during her Master’s studies—an area which, today, profoundly influences the daily course of her research.