Alois Karl Schlarb currently serves as a Senior Research Professor at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU), is a member of the State Research Center OPTIMAS at RPTU, and is a Visiting Professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), PR China. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, specializing in Production Engineering and Company Organization. After his graduation in 1984, he relocated to the University of Kassel. He was awarded a doctorate in 1989 for his thesis on polymer processing. From 1988 until 1989, he was also Head Engineer at the university’s Institut fuer Werkstofftechnik. In the following 13 years, Prof. Dr. Schlarb held different positions in the industry. In November 2002, Alois Schlarb was appointed to a full professorship for “Composite Materials” at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (now RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) and held this position until 31 March 2022. From 2002 to 2008, he served in parallel as Chief Executive Officer of the Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH. Prof. Dr. Schlarb served as Spokesman of the Scientific Alliance of Polymer Technology (WAK) from 2009 to 2015 and as President of the Society for the Advancement of Materials and Processing Engineering SAMPE Deutschland e.V. from 2003 to 2015. His research activities focus on process–structure–property relationships and the tribology of polymer-based hybrid materials.
