Fateme Sarraf has been a Doctoral Researcher at Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology since 2019. She was an Intern in 2017 at Empa. She received her Bachelor's of Science in Materials Engineering from 2011 to 2015 at Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU), a Master's of Science in Materials Engineering from 2015 to 2018 at Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Earth Sciences from 2019 to 2023 at University of Bern. Her research interests include AM of ceramics, gas sensors, and polymers.

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Frank Clemens is Group Leader (Smart Ceramic Processing) in the Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics at Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland. His scientific and applied research belongs to thermoplastic processing of powder-based sensors, actuators, and structural materials. His group focuses on national and international projects in this field, and he works with physicists, chemists, material scientists, and engineers together to investigate activation energies on different processing steps. In addition, he develops new strategies for the processing of functional ceramics and soft sensor materials and structures. Since 2003, he has been a lecturer at ETH Zurich (CH) and since 2010, a lecturer at ZHAW (CH).