Prof. Dr.-Ing. Noomane Ben Khalifa

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Noomane Ben Khalifa is Professor of Manufacturing – in particular Innovative Manufacturing an the Head of the Institute of Production Technology and Systems (IPTS), Leuphana Universität. He also heads the Institute for Material and Process Design at the Helmholtz Center Hereon. His research focuses in particular on the sustainable and ecological development of innovative manufacturing processes, among others for the transportation sector. In addition to extrusion, the manufacturing processes include sheet metal forming as well as additive manufacturing. The manufacturing processes are designed to be climate- and resource-friendly along the entire value chain.

since 01.2024 Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council (WTR) Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon

since 05.2023 Head of the Institute of Production Technology and systems, Leuphana Universität

since 04.2022 Member Senate Leuphana Universität

since 01.2021 Head of Material and Process Design

04.2019 to 05.2021 Head of the Institute of Product and Process Innovation (PPI), Leuphana University

since 10.2018 Member of the Working Group Metal Forming (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Umformtechnik/AGU)

since 05.2018 Professor of Manufacturing at Leuphana University (shared professorship with Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht)

03.2015 to 03.2021 Research Affiliate at the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP)

05.2014 to 04.2018 Academic Superior Council for Lifetime, Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Design, TU Dortmund University

05.2013 to 04.2014 Academic Council (on trial), Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Design, TU Dortmund University

03.2012 Doctorate in engineering, dissertation topic: "Extrusion of helical profiles using the example of screw rotors" (with distinction)

05.2011 to 04.2018 Chief Engineer Research and Member of the Management Committee of the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Design, TU Dortmund University

11.2008 to 04.2011 Head of the Department of Bulk Metal Forming and member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Design, TU Dortmund University

01.2006 to 10.2008 Research associate at the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Design, TU Dortmund University (Heads of Institute: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner, Prof. Dr.-Ing. A. Erman Tekkaya)

10.2001 to 07.2005 Student assistant in the field of profile forming at the Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Design, TU Dortmund University

10.1999 to 12.2005 Study of Mechanical Engineering, at TU Dortmund University, specializing in production engineering with emphasis on forming technology

Other activities:

• Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as well as other funding agencies
• Reviewer for various international journals including: Journal of Material Processing Technology (JMPT), Journal of Material Science and Engineering (MSE), Key Engineering Materials (KEM)
• Co-organizer of the mini-symposium "Extrusion and Drawing" within the annual conference series of ESAFORM
• First editor of the Special Issue "Forming of Lightweight Materials" of the international journal Materials, 2015

Awards and Honors:

• The 2009 ISPF (International Seminar on Precision Forging) Award for the Most Outstanding Presentation, topic: "Basic Investigations of Twisted and Helical Profile Extrusion of Aluminum Alloys"
• Winner of the university competition ZukunftErfindenNRW in the category of engineering and applied natural sciences, 2014, with the invention "Continuous Extrusion Press for Aluminum Profiles
• Invited keynote lecture at the ICIT & MPT 2014, 9th International Conference on Industrial Tools and Material Processing Technologies, topic: "Innovations and Developments by Metal Forming Technologies"