Jens Günster

Jens Günster is head of the “Advanced Multi-materials Processing” division at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin and Professor of “Advanced Ceramics” at Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany. He graduated in physics from Clausthal University of Technology in 1995. He 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 to Jürgen G. Heinrich (TU Clausthal), he received his Venia Legendi in Materials Physics at Clausthal University of Technology in 2002. Parallel to his appointment at Clausthal University of Technology, he worked at 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 a glass specialist for Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland. He is deputy editor of the journal Open Ceramics and his current research interests include functional materials, laser processing and additive manufacturing of ceramics.