Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPTDr.-Ing. Christoph Baum
Dr.-Ing. Christoph Baum is the managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT since June 2018.
He studied mechanical engineering in Aachen, Málaga (Spain) and Beijing (China), specializing in design and development. In addition to his diploma in engineering from RWTH Aachen University, he graduated with a Master of Science degree from Tsinghua University (China). In January 2017 he received his doctorate in engineering from RWTH Aachen University with his dissertation "Process and machine development for multi-step micro hot stamping", for which he was awarded the Borchers Medal of RWTH Aachen University.
Christoph Baum has been working at the Fraunhofer IPT since September 2006 and was responsible for the "Center for Precision and Microtechnology (ZPM)" between 2008 and 2010. In 2010, Christoph Baum became head of the "High-precision and specialist machines" group and, from 2013, head of the "Ultra-precision machines " group. From January 2015 to June 2016 he was head of the "Ultra Precision technology and plastics replication" department and from July 2016 to the end of May 2018 head of the "Precision Machines" department at the Fraunhofer IPT.
As coordinator of several international research projects, Christoph Baum developed various technologies for the microstructuring of large surfaces and expanded the competence of the Fraunhofer IPT into the field of continuous roll-to-roll production.
Christoph Baum is co-founder of the Fraunhofer spin-off Polyscale GmbH & Co. KG and since July 2016 Managing Director of the "Forschungsgemeinschaft Ultrapräzisionstechnik e.V.".