Nico Hempel

Nico Hempel serves as Group Leader of the Material Performance Group within the Chair of Materials Engineering of Additive Manufacturing at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), operating under the TUM School of Engineering and Design. His research centers on advanced manufacturing processes with emphasis on material behavior under thermal and mechanical loads.

His primary research domains include:

• Additive Manufacturing (particularly wire-arc and powder bed fusion)
• Welding process mechanics
• Materials Science focusing on metallic systems
• Mechanical Behavior of Materials under extreme conditions
• Residual Stress formation and mitigation
• Fatigue life prediction
• Thermomechanical Modeling and simulation

Recent publications demonstrate consistent focus on process-structure-property relationships in additive manufacturing and welding, utilizing advanced characterization techniques like energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction. His work bridges experimental validation with computational modeling to optimize manufacturing parameters and predict component performance.

The Material Performance Group operates within TUM's additive manufacturing ecosystem, contributing to initiatives like TUM.Additive and TUM.Idea, with facilities located at Freisinger Landstraße 52 in Garching bei München.