CLiCAM ERA talents, Abel W. Ourgessa from FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass and Tomasz Kielczawa from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, officially started their secondment at Treibacher Industrie AG, where supervised by Dr. Richard Trache, with support from Karl Körner and Christian Hebenstreit, who created the opportunity for CLiCAM ERA Talents to develop practical competencies in an advanced industrial research environment. 

Tomasz Kielczawa (left) and Abel Ourgessa (right) delivering presentations on their research background during their introduction to Treibacher.

After the safety training and the introduction to the company, both ERA talents had the opportunity to present themselves, their research background and collaboration opportunities to the Treibacher's R&D department. The practical training they have started shortly after, focuses on hands-on experience in suspension preparation and processing of thermal spray coating, inorganic waste-based substrates. Both researchers also gained valuable insights into industrial innovation projects development & management, practical research activities' transfer to industrial technology & production, as well as how to coordinate projects across different industrial and academic units.

We wish both of our ERA talents an enriching stay at Treibacher!