The Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig has elected Andrés Fabián Lasagni as a full member of the Technical Science Class. With this appointment, the TU Dresden professor joins the list of more than 200 renowned members of various disciplines. During the hybrid public fall session of the Academy on December 11, 2020, Lasagni will be formally admitted to the Academy in the presence of Sebastian Gemkow, Minister of State for Science of the Free State of Saxony.

The Argentinean-born scientist has set himself ambitious goals in the spirit of the academy's mission to promote science and encourage interdisciplinary exchange: "Saxony offers a large number of small and medium-sized companies with an enormous potential for innovation. I would like to support them with new developments and findings from the basic science. The Academy will enable me to come into contact with outstanding scientists in the region, exchange ideas and realize new projects and cooperations. I am looking forward to the future!” At the same time, membership in the Central German Scholarly Society, founded in 1846 as the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences and now steeped in tradition, is a very special distinction for him: "I have been living in Saxony for twelve years now. This award is not only a recognition of my scientific work. It is a special honor for me as a foreign scientist to receive this endorsement from my colleagues".

Andrés Lasagni studied chemical engineering in Río Negro, Argentina, from 1997 to 2002 and received his doctorate in the field of materials science at Saarland University in 2006. "When I arrived in Germany at the age of 25, all I had, apart from my suitcase, was my knowledge and the motivation to achieve something," the laser expert recalls. "The first thing I had to do was to learn the language, understand the culture and work hard to develop scientifically. Thanks to the people who believed in me, all this was possible. In particular, the continuous support of my wife and her family, who are from Saxony, has always given me the necessary backing.” Today, he is professor for laser-based methods of large-area surface structuring at TU Dresden and one of the directors of the "Center for Advanced Micro-Photonics (CAMP)" at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS Dresden. He also holds nearly 30 patents, more than 250 scientific publications and numerous national memberships, such in the German Society for Materials Science and in international networks.

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