Malek Abu-Gharbieh, M. Eng., born 1998 in Berlin Germany, studied Mechatronics at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT) and is a research engineer at the Technische Universität (TU) Berlin at the Institute for Machine Tools and Factory Management (IWF) at the Production Technology Center Berlin. His research focuses on the additive manufacturing of titanium alloys using the PBF-LB/M process.