Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair
Dr.-Ing. Anke Kaletsch
Chief Engineer, Head of Powder Metallurgy and Ceramics
RWTH Aachen University
Anke Kaletsch is the Head of the Powder Metallurgy and Ceramics Division at the Institute for Materials Applications in Mechanical Engineering (IWM) at RWTH Aachen University. She is also deputy Head of the Institute of Applied Powder Metallurgy and Ceramics (IAPK e.V.), an affiliated institute of RWTH Aachen University. Anke Kaletsch studied mechanical engineering in Aachen and received her PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from RWTH Aachen University in 2016. At IWM and IAPK, she coordinates the research activities and projects in the field of powder technology, with a particular interest in Additive Manufacturing and Hot Isostatic Pressing. Within the EPMA, Anke Kaletsch is the co-chair of the EuroHIP Hot Isostatic Pressing sectoral group.
Dr Johannes Pötschke
Head of department sintering and characterisation
Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Pötschke is leading the research on “hardmetals, cermets and super hard composites” at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden, Germany. His primary research interests are in the fields of materials developments of novel compositions for cutting, drilling, wear and forming tools, in the development and optimization of manufacturing techniques for composite materials like hardmetals, cermets or ceramics, and in the characterisation of metals, ceramics and composite materials. Within the last years his special focus was on the development of novel additive manufacturing processes for the tooling industry and alternative hardmetal compositions. Dr. Pötschke is author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and several patents and patents applications. He is member of the European powder metallurgy association (EPMA) program committee of both euro and world PM conferences, the European Hard Materials Group Steering Group, the association of German engineers (VDI), committee for cutting tools and within the German society for material science (DGM), member of the German committee of experts for powder metallurgy and on the editorial board of International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials.
The EPMA would like to express its sincere thanks to the members of the Technical Programme Committee for their support and hard work in structuring the Euro PM2026 programme and for reviewing the submitted papers.
Prof Marco Actis Grande (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Dr Iñigo Agote (TECNALIA, Spain)
Prof Paula Alvaredo (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Mr Alexander Angré (Linde AG, Sweden)
Dr Miren Aristizabal (Ceit-IK4, Spain)
Ing Naiara Azurmendi (TECNALIA, Spain)
Prof Thierry Barrière (University of Franche-Comte, France)
Dr Cristina Berges Serrano (UCLM, Spain)
Dr Monica Campos (Carlos III Madrid, Spain)
Prof Efrain Carreño-Morelli (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western, Switzerland)
Prof Riccardo Casati (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Dr Andrei Chychko (Sandvik, Sweden)
Dr-Ing Nuria Cinca (Hyperion Materials and Technologies, Spain)
Prof Ilaria Cristofolini (Trento University, Itlay)
Mr Ian Dandy (MTC Powder Solution, Sweden)
Dr Laura Córdova González (University Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain)
Prof Ilaria Cristofolini (Trento University, Italy)
Prof Herbert Danninger (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Dr Paul A Davies (indo-mim, UK)
Dr Gian Pietro De Gaudenzi (F.I.L.M.S. SpA – OMCD Group, Italy)
Dr Raquel De Oro Calderon (TU Wien, Austria)
Mr Benjamin Delignon (Granges, France)
Dr Mark Dougan (AMES SA, Spain)
Dr Cristina Fernandes (Palbit S.A., Portugal)
Dr José Garcia (Sandvik Machining Solutions, Sweden)
Dr Christian Gierl-Mayer (TU Wien, Austria)
Prof Elena Gordo (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Dr Sebastian Boris Hein (Fraunhofer IFAM, Germany)
Dr Bjoern Hoschke (ZCC Cutting Tools Europe GmbH, Germany)
Dr Gemma Herranz (University Castilla de la Mancha, Spain)
Dr Björn Hoschke (ZCC Cutting Tools Europe GmbH, Germany)
Dr Iñigo Iturriza (CEIT, Spain)
Dr Anke Kaletsch (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Mr Peter Kjeldsteen (Sintex a|s, Denmark)
Dr Christian Kukla (Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria)
Dr Miguel Lagos (TECNALIA, Spain)
Dr Inge Lindemann (Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, Germany)
Dr Stefano Lionetti (RINA Consulting – Centro Sviluppo Materiali, Italy)
Prof Luis Miguel Llanes (Catalunya Univ Polytecnica, Spain)
Mr Marko Maetzig (ARBURG GmbH + Co KG, Germany)
Mr Anders Magnusson (Quintus – Sweden)
Dr Diego Manfredi (Politecnico di Torino – DISAT, Italy)
Dr José Manuel Martin (CEIT, Spain)
Prof Cinzia Menapace (University of Trento, Italy)
Prof Georgina Miranda (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Dr Cèsar Molins (AMES SA, Spain)
Dr Siavash Momeni (Rieter, Switzerland)
Dr Steven Moseley (Hilti AG, Liechtenstein)
Mr Eshwara Nidadavolu (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany)
Adj.Prof. Dr Susanne Norgren (Sandvik, Sweden)
Dr Nerea Ordas (CEIT, Spain)
Prof Frank Petzoldt (Fraunhofer IFAM, Germany)
Dr Yoko Pittini-Yamada (Parmaco Metal Injection Molding AG, Switzerland)
Dr Ing Johannes Pötschke (Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany)
Ing Lea Reineke (Fraunhofer IFAM Bremen, Germany)
Dr Shandra Sainz (CEIT, Spain)
Dr Jose Manuel Sanchez Moreno (CEIT, Spain)
Mr Oliver Schenk (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Dr Georg Josef Schlick (Fraunhofer IGCV, Germany)
Dr-Ing Markus Schneider (GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH, Germany)
Dr Tomás Soria Biurrun (CEIT-BRTA, Spain)
Dr Ing Thomas Studnitzky (Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, Germany)
Dr Sophia Tsipas (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
Prof Thomas Weißgärber (Fraunhofer IFAM Dresden, Germnay)
Dr. -Ing Elsa Wellenkamp de Sequeiros (Porto University, Portugal)
Dipl.-Ing Matteo Zanon (Kymera International/Ecka Granules, Germany)
Prof Jie Zhou (Delft Technical University, Netherland)