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Abstract
Bio
Manfred Kohl received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He worked as an IBM postdoctoral fellow at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA, and subsequently joined the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Department of Smart Materials and Devices at the Institute of Microstructure Technology of KIT. He is co-organizer of the International Conference and Exhibition on New Actuator Systems and Applications and coordinator of the Priority Program KOMMMA (Cooperative Multistage Multistable Microactuator Systems) of the German Science Foundation. His current research focuses on ferroelastic and ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, multimaterial micro- and nanotechnologies as well as corresponding smart devices.