People

The New Production Institute team consists of more than 30 members from various scientific disciplines. The spectrum ranges from mechanical engineering and manufacturing technology to design and value creation theory, knowledge and social economics, participation research, economic geography, law and natural sciences.

Management

Daniel Salgado-Moreno

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Innovation ecosystems, Innovation management, Public innovation

Dr. Sonja Buxbaum-Conradi

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Digital production, Fab Labs, Inter-organizational knowledge management

Dr.-Ing. Manuel Moritz

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Community-based innovation, Innovation Contests, Open Source Innovation

Dr.-Ing. Tobias Redlich

Academic Director, Group Leader

Research focus

  • Circular economy, Digital manufacturing, Distributed Manufacturing, Open Source Hardware

Team

Victoria Wenzelmann

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Critical Making, Distributed Manufacturing, Innovation ecosystems

Dr. Pascal Krenz

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Knowledge management, Open Source Innovation, Production networks, Urban production

Oskar Lidtke

Research assistant

Research focus

  • Digital manufacturing, Medical open source hardware

Oliver Schwartz

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Circular Design, Communication management, Science communication

Mohammed Omer

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Open hardware for education, Open source machine tools, Resource-conserving development

Mohammad Mohammadifar

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Business model development

Michel Langhammer

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Open educational resources, Open Source Hardware, Sustainable production

Melina Kaiser

Research Assistant

Research focus

Mats Göttsche

Student Assistant

Research focus

  • Value creation radar

Marcello Tania

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Digital manufacturing

Dr.-Ing. Luisa Lange

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Machine operability, Open source machine tools, Socio-technical influences

Lisa Stoltenberg

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Consumer research, Local production, Sustainable consumption

Leven Hennig

Student Assistant

Research focus

  • Digital manufacturing, Hardware replication

Lasse Burmeister

Research Assistant

Research focus

  • Intellectual property (IP), Law, Open source hardware certification

Julia Markert

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Automation and AI perspectives, Design of value chains, Local production, Quality management

Juan Manuel Grados Luyando

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Local production, Open Source Hardware, Sustainable production

Joshua Simon

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Additive manufacturing technologies, Process development and quality assurance in selective laser melting

Jan Quosdorf

Student Assistant

Research focus

  • Value creation radar

Dr. rer. oec. Jan Peuckert

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Collaborative value creation, Innovation, Sustainability

Dr. rer. nat. Jacqueline Bertlich

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Ocean and climate sciences, Science communication

J.C. Mariscal-Melgar

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Adversarial AI, Capital markets, Open Source Hardware, Open Source Software

Henrik Seeber

Research Associate

Research focus

Gerrit Rüdebusch

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Education, Social sciences, Work education

Gaia Di Martino

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Agriculture, Digital manufacturing, Open Source Hardware

Durga Prasad Babu Nasika

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Agriculture, Architectural development, Robotics

Dominik Saubke

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Local production, Open Hardware, Work preparation

Andreas Kahler

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Additive manufacturing technologies, Machine learning for process monitoring

Hakan Rasim Öztürk

Research Associate

Research focus

  • Additive manufacturing technologies, Process development and quality assurance in selective laser melting

Senior Advisor

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens P. Wulfsberg

Former Head of the Laboratory of Production Engineering (LaFT)

Research focus

Alumni

  • Sissy-Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld
  • Sebastian Graber
  • Lennart Hildebrand
  • Jana Koppe
  • Babasile Oladele-Emmanuel
  • Svenja Zadow