Marion Merklein

Marion Merklein (born 1973)^[1] is a German metallurgist who studies metal forming, including stamping and additive manufacturing. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, where she heads the Institute of Manufacturing Technology.^[2]

Merklein earned a diploma (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in material science in 1997 from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, and continued at the same university for a doctorate in mechanical engineering, through the university's Institute of Manufacturing Technology, which she completed in 2001. Her dissertation concerned the use of lasers in the additive manufacturing of aluminum alloys.^[1]

From 2001 to 2008 she worked as a senior manager in the Institute of Manufacturing Technology, on sheet metal forming, earning a habilitation in 2006. In 2008 she took a professorship in the institute, serving as dean of engineering from 2011 to 2015.^[1]

Merklein was a 2004 recipient of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis and a 2013 recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.^[1] With Jürgen Lechler, she was a 2008 recipient of the SAE/AISI Sydney H. Melbourne Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Automotive Sheet Steel.^[3]

In 2015, she was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina^[4] and to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.^[5] She is also a member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering,^[6] and a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering.^[7]

She received the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2018.^[8]

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