Welcome, Fellow interested!

This Blog is meant as a more permanent resource to some of the things I come up with. It features endeavours in machining, milling, and manufacturing, but also in all things science, microscopy, innovative and probably also some things that I just find plain awesome and want to share.

This block is my personal opinion, but in a time where anyone can be a source, and a lot of generated, wrong or half-truths are around, I feel the need to briefly introduce myself, set a couple of ground rules and make clear why you maybe want to believe what you are seeing here.

My professional background and day job is Head of Future Technology at Kern Microtechnik GmbH, a Germany based machine tool company that builds probably the most advanced and precise 5 axis milling machines on the planet. My work there looks into developing radically new ideas, how material can be removed. I encounter materials daily that most people only have a bare idea about. A typical week features ceramics, high tech alloys and weird materials such as commercially pure Molybdenum. I am very fortunate to have a fantastic set of equipment there, from an awesome machine to world class, national lab grade metrology equipment. Whenever I feel the need, I dabble in technical marketing and sometimes just mill cool stuff.

Academically, my background was formed at the Technical University of Darmstadt. While probably the hardest time in my life, I have very fond memories of my alma matter. I’ve done my Bachelor of Science in Electrochemistry (Synthesis and Characterization of CoFe Nanowires), my Master of Science in Material Science (Process analysis of burnishing in hardened stainless steel) and my PhD (Dr.-Ing.!) in Material Analytics (Experimental Investigation of Milling with geometric defined cutting edge in hard, technical ceramics). I’m currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration with the focus on marketing.

Personally, I like to tinker in my freetime. My current super-fixation is knife sharpening. I’ve been very fortunate to have good friends that helped me get into this.

I’d like to set some ground rules, also for myself:

1.) This is my personal opinion.

2.) This blog is independent. It’s impossible to buy or influence my opinions stated here.

3.) Whenever I do not know something, I’ll state this. Probably through “I’m not sure, but I think…”

4.) Whenever something is not real (e.g., drawn, simulated or AI generated) I will specifically mark this. You can be very sure, that every word you read, every post and every sentence is typed by a human being – yours truly!

5.) When we hit a point where we are liable to get into conflict with professional IP, especially of my dayjob, I’ll state so and not continue onwards.

And last but not least: I firmly believe in the scientific method. A lot of the content you will see is done how a 18th century physicist would do it: Make an experiment, do an observation and then draw conclusions. I’m equally form in: if you didn’t measure it, you didn’t do it.

So long,

Dr. Marv