Jens Günster

Jens Günster is head of division "Advanced Multi-materials Processing" at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin and Professor for “Advanced Ceramics” at Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany. He graduated from Clausthal University of Technology with a degree in physics 1995. He has worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at NIMS in Tsukuba, Japan, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M, USA. As a research assistant of Jürgen G. Heinrich he received his Venia Legendi in Materials Physics from Clausthal University of Technology in 2002. He joined parallel to his appointment at TU Clausthal the International Center for Young Scientists ICYS at NIMS from 2003 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he worked as group leader "Laser Processes" and as glass specialist for Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland. He is Assistant Editor of the Journal Open Ceramics and his current research interests include functional materials, laser processing and additive manufacturing of ceramics.