Jens Günster

Jens Günster is the head of the Advanced Multi-Materials Processing division at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, and a professor of advanced ceramics at Clausthal University of Technology in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany. 

He graduated from Clausthal University of Technology with a degree in Physics in 1995. He has also worked as an Alexander von Humboldt/STA Fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University in the USA. He received his Venia Legendi (habilitation) in materials physics from Clausthal University of Technology in 2002. From 2003 to 2008, he joined the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) at NIMS as a visiting advisor, alongside his appointment at TU Clausthal. 

From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a group leader and glass specialist at OC Oerlikon in Switzerland. 

He is the deputy editor of the journal Open Ceramics and a member of the editorial board of Additive Manufacturing Frontiers. He is also a board member of the German Ceramic Society (DKG), and his current research interests include functional materials, materials for energy storage, process development for in-space manufacturing and additive manufacturing of ceramics.