Steffen Weinmann

Process Engineer | Next-Generation Batteries

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Experience

  • Qkera (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Lead Engineer
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    • Materials Engineering Specialist
      Feb 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Research Associate and PhD Student at Technical University of Munich
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Electrochemical Materials Lab MIT @ TUM with Prof. Dr. Jennifer L.M. Rupp Focus: All-solid-state lithium metal batteries with Li-garnet electrolytes and processing thereof. I spent my days persuading interfaces, sintering conditions and impedance spectra to stop ruining otherwise good batteries.

  • Bachelor's and cooperative Master's Student at Fraunhofer IGCV
    Apr 2019 - Mar 2022 · 3 yrs

    Focus: Quality control and Technical Cleanliness for battery production and additive manufacturing Detection of particles and film-type contaminations for batteries and additively manufactured parts to make sure that they don't pretend being "clean enough".

  • Research And Development Intern at MTU Aero Engines
    Mar 2018 - Aug 2018 · 6 mos

    Focus: Novel coating techniques for turbine blades to improve oxidation and wear resistance Experimenting with new setups for CVD coatings for turbine blades and monitoring how the protective layers grew.