Bremen gets a new expert for digitalization in production!

Bremen gets a new expert for digitalization in production!

Evgeniya Kabliman has taken up a professorship in the production technology department at the University of Bremen in the summer semester of 2025. She will take up this position on April 1st as the new director at the Leibniz Institute for Materials-Oriented Technologies (IWT) and will head the digitalization technology department there. Its title is “Knowledge-based digitalization in materials-oriented production” and aims to anchor the topic of digitalization technology more firmly in teaching and research. Kabliman, who has an interdisciplinary background, has shifted her research focus from basic to applied research.

After studying applied physics and mathematics, she received her doctorate in 2011 from the Vienna University of Technology in the field of computer-aided materials science. In her professional career she worked at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, where she most recently worked as a senior scientist. Her focus was on simulation-supported technology development and the thermomechanical treatment of metals. Since 2021, she has led the “Materials Computation” group at the Technical University of Munich and has been working on the application of machine learning in materials modeling. Kabliman was positive about the opportunities at the Bremen location and particularly appreciated the Bremen campus as a lively place for regional and international exchange, reports uni-bremen.de.

The transformation of industry

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