The industry’s most innovative people 2024 Eliana Fu Organisation: Trumpf North America
Role: Industry Manager, Aerospace & Medical
With strong backgrounds in both additive and traditional manufacturing, Eliana Fu has a Master’s degree and PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College London and performed post-doctoral research at Loughborough University (UK) and Clemson University (USA). After working extensively in the traditional manufacturing world with TWI, Firth Rixson and Timet, she moved to additive manufacturing at SpaceX and Relativity Space as a senior engineer of additive technologies. Fu is now Industry Manager for
Aerospace & Medical at Trumpf, where her work covers aspects such as sustainability
Elisabeth Bothschafter Organisation: Rohde & Schwarz
Role: Senior Director of Solutions and Products
Prior to joining Rohde & Schwarz in September, Elisabeth Bothschafter headed up the metrology and display test solutions teams at Instrument Systems, a manufacturer of high-precision spectrometers, complex systems and software solutions for spectral light measurement, for more than six years. She led a team focused on the development of near-eye display test solutions for R&D and production, measuring colour accuracy and traceable luminance measurements, MTF, distortion and chromatic aberration analysis using spectrometer-enhanced imaging.
Based in: Munich, Germany
Education: PhD, Physics, Technical University of Munich
Bothschafter cites her father as being instrumental in awakening and encouraging her interest in how the world functions, with science being her favourite subject at school. Elisabeth Bothschafter studied physics and engineering at Stuttgart University and the Ecole Centrale Paris. She then obtained a doctorate in laser and ultrafast physics at the TU Munich and conducted research as a postdoc at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Bothschafter can be found on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth- bothschafter-229bb824/.
Eveline Reinheimer
Organisation: University of Stuttgart Role: Research Associate
A research associate at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, Reinheimer uses different laser sources and high-speed X-ray imaging to investigate the laser welding of copper hairpins – a connection that is required for electric motors. Reinheimer’s current research aims
to develop new strategies for making defect-free welds and increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of laser welding in production. In her work, Reinheimer says she was surprised by how supercritical melt flow conditions in the melt pool can shape the
Based in: Stuttgart, Germany Education: Master of Science
vapour capillary at high welding speeds. She also notes that the Froude number is a good criterion to characterise the melt flow in a laser welding process. With this knowledge, Reinheimer says, it is easy to design the geometry of the capillary and melt flow to increase the process window for a defect-free weld. You can find Reinheimer's work on
ResearchGate and her profile on the University of Stuttgart website. She will be attending ICALEO 2023, Photonics West 2024, and the Stuttgart Laser Technology Forum (SLT) 2024.
Based in: Las Vegas, NV, US
Education: PhD, Materials Science, Imperial College London
in manufacturing and the development of green laser technologies for 3D printing. She has been a member of the ASTM F42 Additive Manufacturing Committee, as well as serving as an advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Advanced Manufacturing Committee. She is currently on the Technical Advisory board of IperionX and Fortius Metals, and was recently awarded the TCT Women in 3D Printing Innovator award for 2022. She also is a member of SME’s Additive Manufacturing Technical Community Leadership Committee and is an ambassador for Women in 3D Printing.
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