Profile page Thomas Imwinkelried

Dr Thomas Imwinkelried is a materials scientist with more than 20 years of industrial experience as a development engineer and project manager. During his professional career, he has mainly worked with metallic materials, from nickel-based single crystals during his doctoral thesis (1989 - 1993), the casting of thixotropic aluminium (1995 - 2001), the powder metallurgical production of titanium foam (2001 - 2006) to the biodegradation of magnesium alloys (2006 - 2014). In 2009, he was awarded the Erwin Schrödinger Prize for interdisciplinary research for his work on titanium foam - from raw material to CE approval of a spinal implant system.

Thomas Imwinkelried has been a research associate at the RMS Foundation since 2014 and is responsible for services in the areas of surfaces and tribology. He organises the elective course ‘Medical Devices’ for pharmacy students at ETH Zurich and gives a lecture at the University of Bern.

T. Imwinkelried, S. Beck & B. Schaller.
Pre-clinical testing of human size magnesium implants in miniature pigs: Implant degradation and bone fracture healing at multiple implantation sites.
Materials Science and Engineering C, 108, 2020, article number 110389. DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2019.110389 / Download PDF

T. Imwinkelried.
Testing the mechanical properties of surface-modified magnesium and magnesium alloys for biomedical applications.
In Sankara Naraynan TSN & Park I-SLee M-H (Eds.), Surface modification of magnesium and its alloys for biomedical applications, Volume 1: Biological Interactions, Mechanical Properties and Testing, 2015, 311-329.

T. Imwinkelried, S. Beck, T. Iizuka, & B. Schaller.
Effect of a plasmaelectrolytic coating on the strength retention of in vivo and in vitro degraded magnesium implants.
Acta Biomaterialia, 9(10), 2013, 8643-8649. DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.08.047

T. Imwinkelried.
Mechanical properties of open-pore titanium foam.
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A, 81A(4), 2007, 964-970. DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.31118