Scientific director for digitalisation

Mauritius Schmitz, born in 1985, studied Computational Engineering Science with particular focus on structural mechanics and fluid dynamics at RWTH Aachen University. Following his diploma, in 2014 he joined IKV as a project engineer for process simulation in the Department of Injection Moulding.

In 2015 he became a doctoral student and head of the working group for Process Simulation in the Department of Injection Moulding, focusing on applications and further development of injection moulding simulation. Furthermore, he worked on model predictive control strategies for novel mould tempering techniques, considering the local part properties during the injection moulding process.

In 2019 Mauritius Schmitz joined the institute management as Scientific director at the Institute for Plastics Processing. In this position he is responsible for the research and development in the field of Digitalisation and Industry 4.0 as well as the internationalisation strategy of the Institute. Since 2019, he is a Cluster Research Domain Coordinator in the research domain “Production Technology” of the Cluster of Excellence “Internet of Production”, funded by the DFG.