Our Research Report 2025 is here!

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Research Report 2025

Our new annual report has been published and looks back on an eventful and highly successful year at the Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk). The sixth edition takes you through a year filled with key personnel milestones, scientific achievements, and international presence.

A particularly defining moment was the appointment of Junior Professor Katharina Völkel, who has taken over the “Machine Elements” course, thereby sustainably strengthening a central pillar of the curriculum. At the same time, we were delighted to celebrate several outstanding appointments from within our own ranks: Max Marian, Fabian Wilking, and Marcel Bartz accepted professorships in Hanover, Monterey (USA), and Dortmund—an impressive testament to the excellent support of early-career researchers at KTmfk.
Read the full report here: https://www.mfk.tf.fau.de/files/2025/12/Forschungsreport_2025_v2.pdf