Graz, Styria, Austria
* PhD student within the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Advanced Coated Cutting Tools * Deposition, Characterization and Optimization of ZrN based protective hard coatings for machining applications * Deposition using chemical and physical vapor deposition processes * Characterization of coatings with advanced methods: in-situ and ex-situ high energy X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy, micro-mechanical bending tests, nanoindentation, ... * Automation of data analysis using python and other high-level scripting languages
* Student research fellow within a project of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) in cooperation with Infineon * Non-destructive investigation of the elastic properties of porous metal layers using guided lamb wave propagation * Establish a laser ultrasound interferometry set-up, based on two-wave mixing in a photo-refractive crystal * Simulation of Lamb wave propagation in solid materials using Matlab
Supervision of students during laboratory exercises
Quality control and materials analysis using ultrasound and eddy current testing. Monitoring and maintenance of testing devices.