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Prof Ekkard Brinksmeier was born in 1952 in Lage, Germany and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Hannover, Germany. After receiving his Dr. -Ing degree in mechanical engineering in 1982 he worked as Cheif Engineer of Prof. Hans Kurt Tonshoff at the Institute for Production Engineering and Machine Tools, IFW, Hannover. He finished his habilitation in 1992, became a full professor at the University of Bremen, and holds the chair of manufacturing technologies. Furthermore, he is Director of the Foundation Institute of Materials Science IWT and the Laboratory for Precision Machining LFM. His scientific interests and research areas lie in the field of advanced manufacturing processes with special focus in the areas of grinding, ultraprecision machining processes, development of sensor-integrated tools, development of advanced metalworking fluids, and the generation of functional surfaces by machining. Prof Brinksmeier is Fellow of CIRP and Fellow of SME. he is past president of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology, euspen. Prof Brinksmeier has received several awards, most notably the CIRP F.W. Taylor Medal and the DFG Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award which is the most prestigious German research award. In 2012 he was the chairman of the first CSI Conference in Bremen.

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