Micro-/Nanojoining technology

Design of joints with tailored properties, process-microstructure-property relationship and (material) interfaces design

Process development and optimisation (brazing, soldering, diffusion bonding, Transient Phase Bonding and hybrid joining processes)

Joining of dissimilar materials, development of (composite) brazing filler alloys and solders, control of residual stresses

Group Leader (Micro- and Nanojoining)/Senior Scientist, Empa Dübendorf, Laboratory for Joining Technologies & Corrosion (1998-present)

Research Professor and Lecturer at Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Poland (2010 – 2015, part time)

Senior Scientist, Empa Thun, Laboratory for Materials Technology, Micromechanical Testing of Composite Materials (1994-1998)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute de Genie Atomique, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL (1993-1994)

Research assistant at the Institute of Materials Technology, University of Dortmund, Germany (1989 – 1993)

Habilitation and venia legendi (2008), Materials Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1993), Institute of Materials Technology, University of Dortmund, Germany

M.Sc. in Technical and Biomedical Cybernetics (1998), Technical High School Ilmenau, Germany

Titular professor nomination (Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil.) by the President of the Republic of Poland, (2014)

Swiss delegate and the sub-commission chair of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) Technical Commission C-VII "Microjoining and Nanojoining",

Expert of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) Technical Commission C-XVII“Brazing, soldering, and diffusion bonding”

Member of the Swiss Welding Society (Schweizerischer Verein für Schweisstechnik SVS)

Member of the Polish Materials Society (PTM)

Member of the Editorial Board of Materials Engineering (Inzynieria Materialowa), Transactions of the Foundry Research Institute and Welding Technology Review

Member of the Scientific Committee of the 73rd World Foundry Congress “Creative Foundry”, Krakow, Poland (2018)

Co-Chair of the 4th International Conference on Nanojoining & Microjoining (NMJ2018), Nara, Japan (2018)

Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of 12th International Conference on Brazing, High Temperature Brazing and Diffusion Bonding (LÖT2019), Aachen, Germany (2019)

Polish (mother tongue)

German

English

French (Basic knowledge)

See http://www.researcherid.com/rid/I-9454-2014

J. Kübler, J.Janczak-Rusch, Aktiv gelötete Komponenten aus Si3N4-TiN-Keramik und Stahl, in: DKG Handbuch, 2014.

J. Janczak-Rusch, Ceramic component integration by advanced brazing technologies, in: Ceramic Integration and Joining Technologies: From Macro to Nanoscale, Eds. M.Singh, T.Ohji, R.Asthana, S. Mathur, John Wiley&Sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-39122-8, 2011.

S.S. Babu, S. Flowers, J. Janczak-Rusch, et al. Joining of nanomaterials, Chapter 4.5. in: GENNESYS White Paper, Eds. Max-Planck Gesellschaft, 2008.

J. Janczak-Rusch, Interfaces in fibre reinforced composites: micromechanical properties and their effect on the composite behaviour, Publishing House of the Warsaw Univ. of Technology, ISSN 1234-5229, z.20, Warsaw, 2007

Janczak-Rusch, J. Charactérisation de la dureté des matériaux. In: Degallaix, S., Ilschner, B. (Eds.), Vol.2 Charactérisation Expérimentale des Matériaux I: Propriétés physiques, thermiques et méchaniques, Le Traité des Matériaux 2, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, EPFL, Lausanne, 2007, 173–186

J. Janczak, Zum Design von faserhaltigen Metallmatrix-Werkstoffen mit optimierten mechanischen Eigenschaften, Dissertation, Universität Dortmund, 1994.

H. Kern, J. Janczak, Die wichtigsten Technologiefelder im Überblick, High-Tech-Handbuch, Werkstoffe, ed. K. Gazdar, Economica Verlag, Bonn, 1992, S. 82-111.