Funding statement: The scientific work has been supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Research Priority Program SPP 2086. The guest editor and all the authors thank DFG for this funding and support.
About the author
Volker Schulze has been a full professor for Manufacturing and Materials Technology at the Institute for Production Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since April 2010. Concurrently, he is director at the Institute of Applied Materials at KIT. He is a member of CIRP International Academy for Production Engineering and spokesperson of the Research Priority Program 2086 of DFG. His research interests include machining, additive manufacturing, heat treatment and mechanical surface treatments.
Acknowledgment
The special issues are dedicated to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fernando Puente who strongly supported the idea of these issues and passed away this summer fully unanticipatedly.
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