ETH Meets You at Berlin Science Week 2022

Julia Carpenter is just finishing her PhD in the Complex Materials Group of the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich. She is working on the manufacturing of ultra-​light-weight metal foams. Her research has inspired her to start her own company. Julia Carpenter completed both her BSc and MSc at ETH with some time spent at the Imperial Collage in London and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2019, she represented ETH Zurich’s RETHINKING DESIGN exhibition during the world economic forum annual Meeting (WEF) in Davos.
 

Nicole Kleger is just finishing her PhD in the Complex Materials Group at the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich. In her research, she set a strong focus on biomedical materials, and is focusing on the preparation and properties of lattice structures generated by 3D printing. Such structures have high potential for medical implants, such as bone defect replacements. Driven by the lack of printable, high-​performance materials, she developed a process which combines traditional molding with 3D printing of sacrificial salt templates. The highly promising results and feedback from the medical industry motivated her to commercialise her technique in the framework of a start-​up.
 

Alessandro Dutto is carrying out his PhD in the Complex Materials Group at the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich. He works on 3D printing of living inorganic materials and is co-​founder of the ETH spin-​off external pageexternal pageFenXcall_madecall_made, whose mission is to transform low-​value materials into sustainable insulation materials for the building industry. Alessandro completed both his BSc and MSc at ETH Zürich with exchange periods at Seoul National University in South Korea and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.