Sven Wiltzsch

since 01.09.2018 - Professor for the material glass

01.07.2012-31.08.2018 - Glass technologist at the glass furnace engineering company JSJ Jodeit GmbH in Jena, Thuringia, Germany

• project Management for the supply of a complete medical glass production plant
• project Management of a R&D project for glass tube production considering specific forming technology
• leading the Engineering for specific projects (incl. all internal and external communications / decisions e.g. plant layout, mechanical design, electrical and piping design)
• leading the commissioning of electrical and gas heated glass furnaces in Mexico and Latvia
• management of the mathematical modelling concerning thermal and flow processes
• research and patent application in the field of special cover glasses 
• sales activities (incl. contract preparation) and required pre-engineering between customers and company

01.01.2008-30.06.2012 - Research assistant at the chair of glass and enamel technology of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Saxony, Germany.

• PhD in the field of "glass melting processes in glass melting furnaces”
• as assistant activities concerning laboratory furnaces design (technology, thermal and electrical engineering, partially commissioning of monofilament glass fibre drawing system, residue quartz glass evaluation furnace and a 12 t/d research furnace for rolled glass application) and execution of industrial research projects (porous burner application, pelletising and compacting of glass raw materials with melting process evaluation in the laboratory and at a 1 t/d day furnace) 

• glass and glass technology

1. Special Nuremberg Biomaterial (glass) in cooperation with the Nuremberg Paracelsus Medical University 

2. Glass melting and Glass furnace related research

• mechanical process technology of (CO2-free) - raw materials for the glass production
• glass melt process analysis - batch melting / redox interaction; bubble nucleation and bubble growth in glass melts
• application of high temperature electrochemistry concerning oxygen bubble formation at platinum tube systems, corrosion mechanisms and particle formation at glass melting electrodes
• mathematical modelling of the batch melting process and high temperature electrochemistry
• application of electric energy to the glass melting and conditioning processd

3. drawing processes for forming of glass products - tube glass production, sheet, display and ultra-thin

    glass (and glass-to-metal-seals)

• Fundamentals of the material glass
• Technology of the container and sheet glass production
• Special glass (fundamentals, application and technology)
• Physical Chemistry for material scientists
• Mechanical process engineering for material scientists
• Introduction to programming for material scientists 

PhD-theses:

Currently two ongoing doctorates in the field of bubble nucleation and oxygen bubble formation at a platinum interface.

Publications with Peer-Review

Gögele, C., Müller, S., Belov, S., Pradel, A., Wiltzsch, S., Lenhart, A., Hornfeck, M., Kerling, V., Rübling, A., Kühl, H., Schäfer-Eckart, K., Minnich, B., Weiger, T.M., Schulze-Tanzil, G.: Biodegradable Poly(D-L-Lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA)-Infiltrated Bioactive Glass (CAR12N) Scaffolds Maintain Mesenchymal Stem Cell Chondrogenesis for Cartilage Tissue Engineering Cells 11(9), 2022, 1577.