Open Topic Tenure Track Professorship (OTTP) of Prof. Andrés Lasagni to be renamed Professorship for Laser-based Manufacturing

Since the beginning of December 2022, the professorship for laser-based methods of large-area surface structuring of Prof. Andrés Fabián Lasagni carries the new title " Chair for Laser-based Manufacturing". Established in 2012 as OTTP at TU Dresden, the research field has expanded after now 10 years, so that a denomination was necessary. The areas of application of lasers in which the professorship conducts research are various. They range from laser microprocessing, surface functionalization, laser welding, cutting and hardening, process development and simulation, photonic-based metrology, optic development and simulation to multibeam laser-based processing.

Prof. Andrés Lasagni was appointed as one of the nine Open Topic Tenure Track Professors (OTTP) at TU Dresden in 2014. In order to attract the world's best and most innovative scientists to Dresden, completely new types of professorships were conceived as part of TUD's 1st Excellence Initiative. In terms of funding and long-term impact, they formed a central element in the future concept of TU Dresden.

Andrés Lasagni joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden in 2008 as part of the Attract program of the Fraunhofer Society. At that time, the native Argentinean successfully founded the "Surface Functionalization" team at Fraunhofer IWS, where he for the first time developed several optical concepts as well as process strategies related to a technology called "Direct Laser Interference Patterning (DLIP)". Lasagni is co-director of the Center for Advanced Micro-Photonics (CAMP), in collaboration with Fraunhofer IWS, where he is responsible for the development of the "Photonics" business area. He is the author of more than 300 articles and 30 patents.

He is the author of more than 300 articles and 30 patents. The laser expert awards and honors include the Fritz-Grasenick-Prize (Austrian Society for Electron Microscopy), the Werner Köster Prize (DGM), the German High-Tech Champion in Photovoltaic Award (BMBF), the Green-photonics Award (SPIE, USA), the Masing Gedächtnispreis (DGM), the Materials Science and Technology Prize (FEMS) and the Berthold Leibinger Award (2nd prize). In 2020, he received the “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento” mention from the senate of Argentina due to his contribution in the field of laser technologies. He is also member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities.