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Dr.-Ing. Matthias Merzkirch

Group leader "Condition Monitoring"
Mechanical Engineering
Phone: +49 821 598-69142
Email:
Room: 2010 (W)
Address: Am Technologiezentrum 8, 86159 Augsburg

Curriculum Vitae

Since 11/2024   Academic Council

Since 06/2024

 

  

Group leader "Condition Monitoring" - Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Materials Resource Management (MRM), 

University of Augsburg and coordinator for the area of “Adaptive Manufacturing Processes and Closed-Loop Production” of the AI Production Network
2024  

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Since 2022   Chair of training course “Digital Image Correlation in Composite Testing”, German Society for Materials Science (DGM)
2021-2024    Senior researcher at the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Mölndal (Sweden)
2019    

Baden-Wuerttemberg certificate in university didactics
2016-2020    

Guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Automotive Lightweighting (NCAL), Gaithersburg (MD-USA)

2013-2015

 

   

Scientific coordinator (and postdoctoral researcher) at the Department "Hybrid Materials and Lightweight Construction“ 

of the Institute for Applied Materials – Materials Science and Engineering (IAM-WK) at KIT
2012    

Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at KIT
2011    

Four-month research stay at Arizona State University (USA) as a research fellow of the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS)
2007-2012    Scientific employee at the Institute for Materials Science I (IWK I) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2006-2007   

Diploma thesis (Dipl.-Ing.) at Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM), Freiburg im Breisgau
2001-2006   

Studies of Mechanical Engineering at University of Karlsruhe (TH)

Main research topics

  • Clarification of the relationship between (micro-)structure and mechanical properties of metals and composite materials
  • Development of (in-situ) test methods for the characterization of the damage behavior of structural materials
  • Failure behavior (mechanisms and mechanics) of metals and composite materials
  • Acoustic emission analysis
  • Digital image correlation
  • Non-destructive testing
  • Mechanical testing (quasi-static and fatigue testing)

Lectures

(applied filters: semester: current | lecturers: Matthias Merzkirch | course types: all)
name semester type
Ingenieurwissenschaftliches Praktikum winter semester 2025/26 Blockpraktikum

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