Team and partners

Mikel Gómez Aranzadi
Project Management

Santiago Miguel Olaizola
Research performer

Enrique Castaño
Research performer

Isabel Ayerdi
Research performer

Gorka Muñoz
Research performer

Luis Omeñaca
Research performer
Private non-profit organisation founded in 1967 in Vigo, Spain, from the initiative of a group of Galician entrepreneurs. It is an Innovation and Technology Centre highly specialized in materials and in advanced manufacturing technologies, especially joining technologies and laser technologies applied to materials processing, robotics and automation.

Alexandre Cunha
Project Management

Félix Ares Blanco
Researcher Performer in “Laser micro-cladding process”

Camilo Prieto Río
Researcher Performer in “In-line process monitoring”

Rocio Pena Rois
Researcher Performer in “Sustainability analysis”

Thomas Eder
Demonstrator developer

Lorenz Neururer
Demonstrator developer
The Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU it is a leading institute for resource-efficient production. The research focus of the Functional Surfaces and Microfabrication department lies in the finishing and structuring processes in order to functionalize surfaces. The emphasis is on the adjustment of sliding properties, wetting behavior or biocompatibility for automotive, toolmaking and medical technology applications.

Dr. Jan Edelmann
Research performer Functional Surfaces

Eric Gärtner
Technology developer laser microstructuring

Udo Eckert
Research performer Micro Manufacturing
Workshop of Photonics is a company ready to find a solution for your micron-scale task. Their journey started in 2003 when extensive research in the field of femtosecond laser micromachining has begun. Since the beginning, they are continually investing in research, striving to always be in front of micron-scale challenges.

Martynas Vilkaitis
Technology developer

Vytautas Sabonis
Technology developer

Simas Godovan
Technology developer

Dr. Gintarė Grybauskaitė-Kaminskienė
Research and innovation project manager
SuperGrid Institute is an independent private company specialising in innovative high and medium voltage direct current (HVDC and MVDC) power systems. SuperGrid Institute also develops new technologies for the integration of renewable energies as hydraulic turbines as storage into the electricity networks of the future.

Renaud Guillaume
Product Manager

Eric Gaudin
Demonstrator Evaluation

Simon Bayle
Demonstrator Evaluation
Fusion Bionic, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS, develops and markets systems to produce bio-inspired surfaces using patented laser microtexturing technologies. The German startup improves the product performance in various industries using laser-generated surface textures inspired by natural blueprints such as the Lotus leaf and Moth-eye. All these surface textures replace ecologically harmful processes, such as chemical de-icing, sandblasting, or etching, while meeting the demand of increased product performance via industrial-scale surface finishing.

PhD Sabri Alamri
Research & Innovation Performer

Mikhael El-Khoury
Technology developer
prototyping & demonstration
BST is a global research and development company based in Graz, Austria, specialized in drag reduction, the development and optimization of products and the testing and evaluation of these. With their Riblets, micro- and nanostructured surfaces, and expertise in the field of flow simulation, the company has already achieved successes for example in the Reno and Red Bull Air Race or the DTM.

Mikel Lucas García de Albéniz
CFD Simulation, Riblet design and expected impact calculation.

Christoph
Feichtinger
CFD Simulation, Riblet design and expected impact calculation
ZIEHL-ABEGG, headquartered in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, is one of the leading global companies in the field of ventilation, control and drive technology. Back in the Fifties, ZIEHL-ABEGG established the basis of modern fan drives: external rotor motors which even today are still seen as state-of-the-art worldwide.

Dr. Frieder Lörcher
Research Performer

Dr. Thomas Stephan Müller
Prototyping & Measurement Supervisor

Alexander Herold
Demonstrator Evaluation

Sandra Hub
Research Performer

Dr. Alexander Pfannenstiel
Research Performer

Andreas Gross
Technology Developer

Joachim Dietle
Product Manager
Secpho is a cluster that gathers more than 180 organizations promoting technological innovation through deep tech in all sectors of our economy. We fooster the collaboration between our ecosystem through industrial projects, networking events and innovation workshops always trying to focus on solving the latest technological challenges.

Sergio Sáez
Cluster Manager

Silvia Cañada
Events & Design Manager

Gawel Walczak
Communication manager