Chair for Materials Science and Engineering

Jan Frenzel is in charge of the research group Materials Processing. His research and teaching focuses on the relationships between manufacturing conditions, microstructures and properties of modern functional and structural materials. Important scientific fields are melting and solidification of alloys, thermomechanical treatments, and the accompanying microstructural characterization. Advanced characterization methods are used for microstructure analysis across all length scales. In some cases, special methods need to be applied, such as novel tomographic approaches and a high-resolution EBSD technique, which were developed in-house as part of earlier research activities. Jan Frenzel conducts research in the fields of shape memory alloys and Ni-based superalloys. He is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Symposium on Martensitic Transformations (ESOMAT) and the International Conference on Martensitic Transformations (ICOMAT) as well as the editorial boards of the journals Shape Memory and Superelasticity and Materials. At Ruhr University he cooperates with staff of the ICAMS modeling institute to provide access to experimental data. In teaching, he offers lectures on experimental methods applied in materials science, shape memory alloys, recycling of materials and advanced scanning electron microscopy.