WP leaders in MICROMAN

Leader of
WP 1

Anette Alsted Rasmussen is Chief Operating Officer at IPU (www.ipu.dk) with 16 years of applied R&D and technology transfer to the industry.
IPU is a private independent research-based engineering consulting company, affiliated to the Technical University of Denmark, and provides consulting, research and development and innovation projects to industrial clients. Business areas include advanced manufacturing processes including use of micro technology. IPU is therefore engaged in MICROMAN through a phd-project conducted by Mr. Emanuele Cannella.

Associate Professor, Guido Tosello, DTU

Leader of
WP 7

Guido Tosello is the recipient of the "Technical University of Denmark Best PhD Research Work 2008 Prize" for his PhD thesis “Precision Moulding of Polymer Micro Components”, of the 2012 Alan Glanvill Award by The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) (UK), given as recognition for research of particular merit in the field of polymeric materials, of the Young Research Award 2014 from the Polymer Processing Society (USA) in recognition of scientific achievements and research excellence in polymer processing within 6 years from PhD graduation, and of the Outstanding Reviewer Award 2016 of the Institute of Physics (UK) for his contribution to the Journal of Microengineering and Micromechanics.

Guido Tosello is Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), member of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), member of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nano Technology (euspen), member of the 4M Association (Multi-Material Micro Manufacturing), member of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS), member of the Steering Committee on Polymer Processing of the Danish Society for Production Engineering (ATV-SEMAPP).

Guido Tosello is currently the Project Coordinator of the Horizon2020 European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network MICROMAN “Process Fingerprint for Zero-defect Net-shape MICROMANufacturing”.

He has been research manager and steering committee member of the large integrated European FP7 projects 4M NoE (2006-2012), COTECH (2008-2012), HI-MICRO (2012-2015), HINMICO (2013-2016), PAM^2 (2016-2020).

Jun Qian,KU Leuven

Leader of WP5

Dr. Jun Qian received his Bachelor’s degree in 1991 and his PhD degree in 1996, both in mechanical manufacturing engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China.  After obtaining his doctorate on precision electro-chemical machining (ECM), Dr. Qian lectured in the same university till 1998. He then moved on the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Japan, where he carried out extensive research on the electrolysis in-process dressing (ELID) grinding technique.

Since 2000 Dr. Qian has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He is now a staff industrial research manager of advanced manufacturing with functional focuses on bridging the university RTD expertise and industrial needs and setting up of collaborative research projects.
He is also a corelab (PMA-P) manager at the Flemish strategic manufacturing research center ‘Flanders Make’. His research activities cover precision and micro manufacturing techniques(micro-EDM, micro-ECM, ELID-grinding, ultrasonic milling etc.), design of precision mechanism, and precision metrology and instrumentation. He is a leading investigator in several national (FWO, SBO, VLAIO) projects and EU projects.

PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Dipl.-Phys. Matthias Hackert-Oschätzchen, Chemnitz University of Technology

Leader of
WP 3

The scientific work of the Professorship Micromanufacturing Technology is focused on research and development of manufacturing technologies and systems for micro- and precision applications as well as the realization of projects in cooperation with partners from industry. The realization of complex projects is accomplished by close cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology. Main research areas are flexible, reliable and economic manufacturing technologies from prototype to series production as well as micro- and precision machining by cutting, ablating and forming technologies supplemented by functional layout and characterization of microstructured surfaces. With his PhD-thesis on Jet-ECM in 2009 PD Dr. Hackert-Oschätzchen led the groundwork for the now technology, which is developed further by MICROMAN ESR 5. In his habilitation-thesis in 2015 PD Dr. Hackert-Oschätzchen analyzed the capability of multiphysics simulation for the design of electrochemical machining processes, which is a main basis for the research work of MICROMAN ESR 6. In MICROMAN he is supervisor of ESR 5 and ESR 6.

Dr.-Ing., Oltmann Riemer, University of Bremen

Leader of
WP 2

I have graduated in 1992 from the Technical University Braunschweig as Mechanical Engineer. Since 1993 I am working as a research engineer and teaching assistant at the Laboratory for Precision Machining LFM at the University of Bremen. I received my Dr.-Ing. degeree in 2001 from at Bremen University.

The focus of my research work is in the area of ultraprecison and micro machining processes, i.e. specifically diamond turning and milling processes, cutting mechanics, micro machining technologies, and micro-topography characterisation which is documented in more than 200 scientific papers.

Professor Richard Leach, University of Nottingham

Leader of WP4

Richard is recognised worldwide by his research into surface topography measurement, particularly in the area of traceability for areal surface texture, including optical instruments. Along with research into surface-function relationships and many other areas of general dimensional metrology, his research has made a major contribution to the use of surface topography engineering and control in a wide range of industrial applications including advanced manufacturing, tribology, aerodynamics and even archaeology. One of his major contributions was the establishment of traceability for areal instrumentation, including primary instrumentation, transfer artefacts and good practice guidance. This work has led to ISO standards based on his research outputs whilst at the National Physical Laboratory. He has also contributed to a theoretical framework that can be used to predict the interaction of light with a surface and, hence to calibrate and correct 3D optical instruments. Complementing these advances in science, he has been prominent in precision engineering, with major industry collaborations involving advanced product manufacture. Richard’s current interests are the dimensional measurement of precision and additive manufactured structures, and he has secured an EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship (2015-2020) in these areas. His research themes include the measurement of surface topography, development of methods for measuring 3D structures, development of methods for controlling surfaces to high resolution in industrial applications and x-ray computed tomography. He has particular interests in developing optical techniques, including for in-process control.

Professor Xichun Luo, University of Strathclyde

Leader of
WP 6