Major award for IWT colleague from the Lightweight Materials department: Maylin Homfeldt (bottom row in the photo, second from left) received the Bremen Study Award 2024.

On 27 November, Maylin Homfeldt was awarded and honoured for her impressive master's thesis in the ballroom of the Bremen Parliament. In her thesis, she investigated the additive process of binder jetting at Fraunhofer IFAM. Using a contact image sensor (CIS) unit from a standard document scanner, she was able to generate images of the metal powder bed with the binder applied and analyse them using an algorithm. This enabled her to compare the actual binder insertion with the target binder insertion and identify geometric deviations. An innovative method for recognising quality defects at an early stage, taking countermeasures and avoiding them in future.

Maylin Homfeldt is an alumni of the relatively new, interdisciplinary degree programme ‘Process-oriented Materials Research’ (ProMat), which was initiated by MAPEX at the University of Bremen and in which some Leibniz-IWT employees are active as lecturers.

Photo: ©Focke/Strangmann - University of Bremen