Miro Duhovic completed his Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honors) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland in New Zealand in November 1998, where he also received his doctorate in August 2005. From August 2005 to November 2008, he worked as a research assistant (supported by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology) at the Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM), University of Auckland. Here, he conducted research in the areas of modeling the deformation behavior of composite materials as well as the development, characterization, and processing of high-performance prepreg tapes consisting of natural fibers and biodegradable thermoplastics. With the support of the German Research Foundation, he joined the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH as a research assistant in December 2008. His research areas include the development of finite element-based simulation models for predicting and researching deformation behavior and the simulation of forming processes for thermoplastic fiber-reinforced semi-finished products. Since January 2012, he has been head of research in the “Process Simulation” competence area, which includes the simulation of a wide variety of manufacturing processes for polymer composite materials.
Joachim Hausmann studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Kaiserslautern, graduating in 1997. After completing his studies, he worked as a development engineer at Comat Composite Materials (now CirComp GmbH), where he was involved in project work in the field of CFRP wound components. In 2000, he moved to the Institute for Materials Research at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne. He was awarded a doctorate in engineering in 2003 at the RWTH Aachen University. After further research in the field of titanium matrix composites at the DLR and a research stay at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan, he founded the Helmholtz University junior research group "Electrolytic Production Routes for Titanium Matrix Composites" in cooperation with RWTH Aachen in 2005. Also in 2005, he was appointed group leader for "Hybrid Material Systems and Intermetallics". In this context, he developed research activities on metal-polymer hybrid materials and the selective laser melting of titanium and titanium aluminides. In 2014, he was appointed to the W3 professorship for "Lightweight Construction with Composite Materials" at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and was simultaneously appointed Technical and Scientific Director of the "Component Development" department at the Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH.
