Teaching

Designing Strength of Metals (Summer 2025, TUM)

Master level elective course on strength and deformation of metals, with an emphasis on how to design specific microstructures for targeted properties.

Strengthening Mechanisms in Crystal Plasticity (Summer 2023, 2024, TUM)

Rated very good (1 out of 6) in 2023.

Master level elective course on the fundamentals of crystal plasticity, on how defects and microstructure determine mechanical properties.

Thermal and Mechanical Behavior of Materials (Fall 2015-2019, UIUC)

Rated as excellent by students for five consecutive years since 2015.

Undergraduate core curriculum course on the thermo-mechanical behavior of materials, including metals, ceramics, composites, and polymers. Elastic and plastic properties.

Metals Processing (Spring 2018, 2020, UIUC)

Rated as excellent by students in 2020.

Senior undergraduate course on metals processing, covering the full value chain from mining to shaping. Strong focus on thermo-mechanical processing. Including one field trip.

Hard Materials Seminar (2019-2020, UIUC)

Materials Colloquium (2015-2018, UIUC)

Material physics at the nanoscale (Fall 2013, 2014, University of Göttingen)

Master level elective course that focuses on nanoscopic physical concepts that relate to materials properties across scales.