Stefan Lohfeld
professor
Engineering and Informatics
NUI Galway
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Stefan Lohfeld is a senior research engineer in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at NUI Galway. He obtained his German Diploma in Production Engineering (comparable to Masters Degree in Ireland) at the University of Bremen. He then went on to the Karl-Winnacker-Institut der DECHEMA e.V. (now "Dechema Forschungsinstitut") in Frankfurt, Germany, to perform his research on high temperature oxidation of intermetallic phases and received his PhD degree in the area of materials science from the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany. In 2002 Stefan joined the NCBES at NUI, Galway to work on an Enterprise Ireland RIF project. Subsequently, he managed the research activities at NUI Galway for the "STEPS" EU FP6 project and manufactured bone tissue engineering scaffolds using rapid prototyping techniques. He then received funding of approx. €710,000 from the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund for four consecutive projects on the development of novel implants for knee damage and spinal instrumentations. Subsequently, he won a EU FP7 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship with funding of €245,000, which is partially performed at the University of Kansas.
Research Interest
His early research efforts were focused on materials of several groups and he is experienced with mechanical testing and the materials behaviour in corrosive and oxidising media.
