Klahn, Christoph, Dr.

Christoph is the head of the Design for New Technologies group at ETH Product Development Group pd|z and at Inspire AG since 2013. He is working in the field of additive manufacturing since finishing his studies on aircraft systems engineering at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in 2008. For his Master’s thesis, he performed a topology optimization on an aircraft bracket to demonstrate the potential of additive manufacturing for Airbus. After his degree, he worked at Airbus on the final assembly lines for A400M and A380, as well as in A350XWB manufacturing engineering. In his PhD he developed an additive manufactured, gas-permeable structure for pneumatic ejectors in injection molding tools. To Christoph new technologies, like additive manufacturing, are a key to innovative products bringing benefits to companies and customers alike. Enabling engineers and designers to identify the right application for AM and to efficiently design better AM parts is his mission. He applies the experience gained from this technology transfer to implement other new technologies into the Swiss industry.