Dirk Godlinski
Dirk Godlinski
Fraunhofer IFAM |
Dirk Godlinski studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University Clausthal (Germany) and achieved 2002 his PhD in Production Engineering at the University Bremen in the field of ceramics processing.
Dirk is now working since 5 years as project manager with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials Research IFAM (Bremen), in the department Functional Structures. He is coordinating European, national, and industrial funded inter-disciplinary projects using the technology platform "Functional Printing" which is based on Nanopowder Technologies, Printing Processes, Rapid Manufacturing, and Materials Development. Most of the work is related to materials and process development for the powder based 3D-Printing process; some examples are tool steels, CoCrMo-alloy, Ti, or bio-resorbable ceramic.
Beyond this "classical" R&D in Rapid Manufacturing of parts with 3D-Printing or Laser Sintering, his special focus today is to qualify in general the established digital and maskless printing technologies, like ink-jet, for printing of functional structures using any functional material - metal, ceramic, polymer, or biological - instead of coloured ink. Therefore Dirk is leading since 2005 the Fraunhofer IFAM application centre "Functional Printing", which covers all aspects from the formulation of printable suspensions, via the evaluation of the most applicable printing process up to the thermal treatment and characterisation of the final printed structure.