Brief Bio

Rainer Hebert is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He also holds the position of Director of the Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Center and Associate Director of the Institute of Materials Science (IMS) at UConn. He is recognized for his contributions to the field of additive manufacturing, particularly concerning the use of metals in 3D printing. Dr. Hebert earned a Diploma in Physics from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003.

Dr. Rainer Hebert has also garnered a range of accomplishments in academia throughout the years. After completing his education at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany in 1997 with a Diplom in Physics, Dr. Hebert switched fields to materials science and engineering, graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. He joined UConn in 2006, currently serving as Director of Undergraduate studies, as well as Director of the Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center in partnership with Pratt & Whitney. In this role, he leads additive manufacturing projects that focus on basic material science aspects of metal additive manufacturing, while also managing the expansion of the Center. Following years of research on metallic glasses and driven amorphization of metallic multilayers, Dr. Hebert’s research interests now focus on the melting and fusion behavior of powder beds interacting with laser beams and the phase selection during the solidification stages of additive manufacturing.