Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kay A. Weidenmann

  • Directorate Board
  • Member of cooperative directorate board (IAM-WK) and Director Polymer Engineering at Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT), Pfinztal
  • office hours: on appointment
  • room: 107, bldg. 10.96
  • fax: +49 721 608 48044
  • kay weidenmann ∂does-not-exist.kit edu

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
    Institut für Angewandte Materialien - Werkstoffkunde (IAM-WK)
    Campus Süd
    Engelbert-Arnold-Straße 4
    76131 Karlsruhe

Main Research Topics

  • Development of process routes for the production of hybrid materials (in particular plastic-metal hybrids)
  • Materials science evaluation and development of sustainable materials concepts 

  • Clarification of the relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties of composite materials and material composites

  • Development of (in-situ) test methods for the characterization of the damage behavior of structural materials

Curriculum vitae

since 10/2026

Director Polymer Engineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT), Pfinztal, Germany 

and 

Professor (W3) and Member of the Directorate Board of the Institute for Applied Materials – Materials Science and Engineering (IAM-WK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 
10/2025 - 09/2026

Vice-President for Research, Digital Innovation and Technology Alliances, University of Augsburg, Germany 
10/2023 - 09/2025 Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Engineering, University of Augsburg 
10/2023 - 09/2025 Deputy Director of the Institute for Materials Resource Management (MRM), University of Augsburg
2019 - 2026 Chair holder "Hybride Composite Materials" at MRM, University of Augsburg 
2015 Nomination as associate professor at KIT
2014 KIT Certificate "Academic Leadership"
2012 - 2019 Senior Academic Council (Akademischer Oberrat) and Head of the Department "Hybrid Materials and Lightweight Construction“
2012 Habilitation at the KIT Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, appointment as PD in "Materials Science"
2009 Baden-Wuerttemberg certificate in university didactics 
2007 - 2011   Head of the Young Investigator Group "Hybrid Lightweight Construction" at Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
2007 - 2011    Academic Council and Head of the Department "Hybrid Materials and Lightweight Structures“
2007 - 2008  Six-month research stay at the EPFL as a research fellow of the DFG 
2007 Founding member of the Young Investigator Network of Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
2006 Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
2003 - 2007 Scientific employee at the Institute for Materials Science I (IWK I) of Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
2003        Diploma thesis at the Max PIanck Institute for Metal Research, Stuttgart, Germany 
1998 - 2003  Study of materials science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany