Portrait of Professor Brosius
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Brosius has held the Chair of Forming and Machining Technology since July 2012 and has been Director of the Institute of Manufacturing since October 2018. He was born in Berlin in 1973.
Without shaping manufacturing processes ... the earth would of course continue to rotate - but our lives would be different, because most of the everyday objects that have become completely normal for us are manufactured by shaping. For the supposedly simple household knife, the block of an internal combustion engine or the housing of a cell phone, a multitude of suitable shaping processes are always necessary.
For me, being a professor... means that I can do what I really enjoy: Researching and developing exciting things in the field of production technology and passing on the necessary principles and knowledge to students.
Students ... should definitely retain their natural curiosity for everything new and unknown - preferably forever. This kind of "genuine" curiosity is only present in subjects that really interest you and are therefore fun. And you can only be good at what you enjoy.
In the future ... manufacturing technology will continue to exist, because something always has to be produced. But the boundary conditions are changing constantly and ever faster, which means: new materials, new processes, new component properties - in short: always new, exciting questions.
If I could study again ... I wouldn't choose anything fundamentally different, but I would include the humanities and education. Today, work is mostly done in teams, with people who sometimes think and act very differently. Knowledge of the "human interface" will make a lot of interesting things possible.
For me, excellence... means high motivation and great commitment. Motivation in terms of very good research and teaching with contemporary topics and methods. Commitment to the actual "product" of a university: the people who emerge from it.