Prof. Dr. Anja Buchwalder

    Activities at FHNW

    Group Leader of Materials Science at the FHNW Institute of Product and Production Engineering

    Research

    Head of the Materials Testing Laboratory:

    • Material characterisation by optical and mechanical methods
    • Volume and surface heat treatment, thermochemical (nitriding, boriding) and coating processes (PVD) of metals
    • Vacuum brazing
    • Improvement and characterisation of tribological and corrosive stress behaviour
    • Thermal electron beam technologies (welding, brazing, ablation, surface hardening, remelting, alloying, wire-based additive manufacturing, etc.) in coop.

    Teaching

    Lecturer for Materials Science in the Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering:

    Profile

    Since 2023
    Professorship of Materials Science at the Institute for Product and Production Engineering at the
    FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,
    School of Engineering and Environment 

    2022
    Awarded the title of Privatdozent PD in the teaching field of Materials Engineering

    2020
    Habilitation on the topic: Potentials and limits of combined boundary layer treatment technologies in connection with a solid/liquid phase boundary layer treatment by means of high-energy blasting processes for cast iron materials; degree: Dr.-Ing. habil.

    2013–2023
    Laboratory Manager Wear Testing at the Institute for Materials Engineering (IWT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

    2010–2023
    Laboratory Manager Thermal Electron Beam Technologies at the Institute for Materials Engineering (IWT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

    2007
    Doctorate on the topic: Contribution to the liquid phase surface treatment of components made of aluminium materials by means of electron beam; degree: Dr.-Ing.

    1997–2023
    Research assistant at the Institute for Materials Engineering (IWT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the department of Surface Technologies

    1990–1997
    Studies in materials engineering at the Faculty of Materials Science and Materials Engineering at the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany); degree: Dipl.-Ing. Materials Engineering 

    • 2023 MIPBAC: "Numerical Modelling of an Industrial Process for Bimetallic Al-loys Casting", (Innosuisse 102.365.1 IP-ENG); Co-op. partners: HESSO HEPIA, FHNW HT IPPE, Kugler Bimetal SA, Geneva
    • 2023 AVIAN: "Aluminium Vacuum brazIng in stAndard furNaces" (INNO-SUISSE 100.708.1 IP-ENG); Co-op. partner: Listemann AG, Winterthur

    Projects before 2023 can be found at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Materials Engineering, research group e-beam

    School

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