Andrés Fabián Lasagni

Lasagni works in the areas of laser-based processing, in particular surface structuring using pulsed laser sources. He has more than 30 patents (stand 2022), many of them related to several optical configurations for Direct Laser Interference Patterning as well as applications related to this technology. His work allowed for the first time worldwide, to implement this technology at the industrial level. In addition, his research convers fundamental aspects on the relationship between surface topography and chemistry with functional properties of surfaces.

Lasagni was born in Cinco Saltos, Argentina. He attended the “Armando Novely secondary school” from 1991 to 1996 in the same city. From 1997 to 2002, he studied Chemical Engineering at the “Universidad Nacional del Comahue”, in Neuquén, Argentina. In 2003, he emigrated to Germany and received his PhD with a dissertation on “Advanced design of periodical structures by laser interference metallurgy” (also called “Direct Laser Interference Patterning”) at the University of Saarland. In 2007, Lasagni went on an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship to the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan (USA), continuing his research on laser surface functionalization. In 2008, he created the group “Surface Functionalization” at Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden and in 2012, he built up the Chair for laser-based Manufacturing. Lasagni is member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig.

Andrés Fabián Lasagni (born August 27, 1977) is an Argentinean, Italian and German materials scientist and laser expert. He is professor at the Technische Universität Dresden and leads the Chair for Laser-based Manufacturing.