Prof. Dr. Norbert Huber has joined the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) as new vice president in October. Previously, he was director of the Institute of Materials Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and at the same time taught as a university professor at the Hamburg University of Technology at the Institute of Materials Physics and Technology. Prof. Huber, who studied mechanical engineering in Karlsruhe and completed his habilitation in 2000 with a thesis on the use of artificial intelligence in materials mechanics, will coordinate BAM's digital transformation across all subject areas and departments as vice president. In addition, he will continue his teaching activities at TU Hamburg.
"With Prof. Norbert Huber, BAM is strengthening its management team and gaining an excellent expert in the field of materials science and digitalization," says BAM president Prof. Dr. Ulrich Panne.
"BAM is already strategically very well positioned in digitalization topics, for example in the area of eSciences, additive manufacturing or the Digital Quality Infrastructure initiative. I am looking forward to being able to further contribute to advancing this transformation process that has already begun, so that, for example, the use of cloud solutions and digital repositories for research data or also the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning become an established practice and an indispensable part of our scientific work," says the new BAM vice president.
This article was first published on 19 October by BAM.
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