Dr.-Ing. Sabine Apelt

Research associate at the Chair of Biomaterials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Materials Science, TU Dresden

• 2013 - 2014 research in the BMBF project "Pyroelectric functionalised layers for active switching of surface properties" PYRO-FUNK in cooperation with the Chair of Materialwissenschaft und Nanotechnik (TUD) and the Chair of Verbindungshalbleiter und Festkörperspektroskopie (TU BA Freiberg)
• 2014 - 2018 research in the BMBF project "Active ice-repellent surfaces for rotor blades" EISAB in cooperation with the Department of Nanostrukturierte Materialien at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.
• 2019 "SIA Poster Award" at the 18th European Conference on Applications of Surface and Interface Analysis (ECASIA)

Study of materials science at the Technischen Universität Dresden, specialisation in functional materials

• 08/2006 - 10/2010 SHK at the Fraunhofer Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme (IKTS), Department Carbide and Filter Ceramics (Dr. Jörg Adler)
• 10/2010 - 04/2011 Technical internship at Höganäs AB, Sweden (PhD Per Olof Larsson), Thesis on "Control of surface roughness on porous metal structures with additives and forming methods"
• 10/2011 - 09/2012 SHK at IfWW, Research group Corrosion and Surfaces (Dr. Ute Bergmann), Thesis on "Evaluation of electrokinetic properties of potentially ice-repellent surfaces"
• 10/2012 - 04/2013 Diploma student at Tennessee Tech University, USA, Research group Protective Coatings (Prof. Y. Zhang), Thesis on "Optimization of the electro-codeposition of Co-Mn3O4 composite coatings for SOFC interconnect applications using Design of Experiments"