Dr. Carsten Siemers
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Carsten Siemers started his research career on the machinability of Titanium alloys as an “Early Stage Researcher” in Braunschweig in 2000. In 2005, he secured a permanent position as a “Senior Research Scientist” at the University of Technology (TU) Braunschweig. Currently, he heads the Titanium Research Group of the Institute for Materials at the TU Braunschweig. Research in his group is focussed on the development of advanced Titanium alloys for several fields of applications like the aerospace, the medical and the automotive industries. This includes the identification of alloy compositions and alloy production as well as alloy characterisation and testing in laboratory and industrial scale. He has authored and co-authored more than 80 papers in the field of materials science and engineering with more than 450 citations. In 2012 Carsten Siemers has been elected chairman of the Titanium Technical Experts’ Committee of the German Materials Society (DGM), i.e. a liaison person between Academia and Titanium industry in Germany. This includes the position of the German representative in the international organizing committee of the Titanium World Conference.