Thomas Gries (engineering scientist)

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Thomas Gries (born April 26, 1964 in Cologne ) is a full professor at the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA) at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

From 1984 Gries studied industrial engineering and engineering . After completing his intermediate diploma, he received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation .

In the period from 1990 to 1995 , Gries received his doctorate in engineering with distinction. He then became deputy technology manager at Lurgi . In this capacity, he traveled to Southeast Asia, particularly Taiwan, Korea and China. He was later promoted to head of fiber and textile technology.

In 1999 he was offered a position at RWTH Aachen University as the successor to Prof. Burkhard Wulfhorst at the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA). In April 2001 he became head of the institute there. As head, he was responsible for the “Tailored Reinforcement Textiles” concept.

Thomas Gries is a member of the Association of German Engineers and the German Business Association and works in two associations as a group leader for specific topics. He is the coordinator of the international high-potential exchange program Unitech. At the university he heads the advisory board for industrial engineering and the research area, an internal funding organization for interdisciplinary research.

Thomas Gries plays the viola and also brought his musical passion to his academic work by making strings out of carbon in collaboration with an instrument maker . As a member of the Aachener Karlsverein , he supports the preservation of Aachen antiquity, the cathedral and the coronation hall of the Aachen cathedral .

honors and awards

  • 2012 first place in the university competition ZukunftErzügeNRW, together with Michael Glowania. The two had discovered that pitch-based carbon fibers have the same thermal conductivity as alloy steel. This now makes it possible to use lighter parts in aircraft and vehicle construction.
  • 2013 JEC Innovation Award together with Michael Glowania.
  • 2013 honorary professorship at Lomonosov University in Moscow .
  • Elected to the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech) in 2016.
  • 2017 RWTH Innovation Award to Thomas Gries and his 4D textile group for the project "4D Textile - Additive Manufacturing of Hybrid Materials for Time-Changing Applications".

Works

author

  • Fiber and textile-based light transmission in concrete components - light-conducting concrete . Together with Andreas Roye and Marijan Barlé. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8322-7297-5
  • Design catalog for sensor technology for online monitoring of production processes . Together with Richard Ramakers and Achim Bese. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8322-5306-6
  • Textile technology . Together with Burkhard Wulfhorst and Dieter Veit. Hanser Gardner, Munich / Cincinnati 2006, ISBN 978-3-446-22963-1
  • Textile technology? Textile technology. Textile technology !. 35th meeting on November 9, 2005 in Düsseldorf. Edited by the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-506-75697-4
  • Requirements-based thin-film systems for thread-guiding textile machine elements . Shaker Verlag , Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-8265-0981-1 . (Dissertation)

editor

  • Joining and surface technologies for textiles . Together with Kai Klopp. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-37227-1
  • Elastic textiles: yarns, processing, application . Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-87150-852-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ita.rwth-aachen.de ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ita.rwth-aachen.de
  2. ↑ exlibris.ch
  3. ↑ a b Honorary professorship from Moscow State University for Thomas Gries. Springer for Professionals , accessed February 20, 2014 .
  4. ↑ unitech-international.org
  5. ↑ Region: Aachen textile technician makes carbon sound. In: Aachener Zeitung. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ idw-online.de
  7. ↑ ITA researchers take first place in the NRW university competition for a new lightweight construction approach. Lightweight-design.de, January 21, 2013, accessed on February 20, 2014 .
  8. ↑ medicine-und-technik.industrie.de
  9. ↑ rwth-aachen.de
personal data
SURNAME Gries, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and professor at the Institute for Textile Technology (ITA) at RWTH Aachen University
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne