Available Topics
The Materials Science working group regularly supervises Bachelor's and Master's theses in the fields of materials science and additive manufacturing. We attach great importance to offering students exciting and practical topics that are highly relevant to the entire working group.
Graduate Topics
There are currently no open Master's thesis topics, but we welcome unsolicited applications and topic suggestions. The availability of topics may also change at short notice, so if you are interested, please contact us by email at Werkstoffwissenschaften-Mechatronik@uibk.ac.at
Undergraduate Topics 2025
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Tobias Rainer, Materials Science
Description
Molybdenum shows epitaxially grown columnar crystalline grains during laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB). The aim is to investigate whether a grain refinement effect can be achieved by adding an alloying element that increases the undercooling of the melt at the solidification front.
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Lorenz Fuchs, Materials Science
Description
Within the scope of the work, defined sample bodies of aluminum alloys are produced by powder bed laser beam melting (PBF-LB) in order to analyze their high-frequency properties.
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Janko Stajkovic, Materials Science
Description
The work investigates the feasibility of an in-situ closed-loop control system for laser power control during the laser-based powder bed melting process (PBF-LB). The focus is on the analysis of process parameters and their influence on control accuracy and process stability. Basic knowledge in Python is an advantage.
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Robert Strauss, Materials Science
Description
The focus of the bachelor thesis is the quantification of the optical density of near-surface defects that occur during the additive manufacturing of components made of refractory metals such as molybdenum. The defect structure and frequency will be determined using an automated image analysis technique.