Starting April 1, 2025, Professor Junhe Lian will succeed Professor Gerhard Hirt and take over the Chair of Forming Technologies at IBF.

Professor Lian, currently conducting research at Aalto University, brings expertise spanning a broad spectrum of forming and materials technology, from the micro- to the macroscale. At IBF, he will continue research on process chains in sheet and bulk metal forming, focusing on process and material behavior in both experiments and simulations. His work will particularly emphasize the thermo-mechanical processing of metallic materials and the resulting evolution of geometry, microstructure, surfaces, and properties.

Together with Professor Münstermann, who is responsible for material modeling at IBF, Professor Lian will focus on the multi-scale experimental and simulation-based representation of entire process chains from semi-finished product and component manufacturing to their application in finished parts.

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