Burghardt Kloeden graduated as »Dipl.-Phys.« in physics from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, and University of Sheffield, UK, in 2002. In 2006, Burghardt obtained his »Dr. rer. nat.« (PhD) degree from TU Dresden, Faculty of Natural Sciences. He has joined m4p material solutions GmbH as Business development Manager in April 2023. Before that he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM, where he helped establishing »Additive Manufacturing by Electron Beam Melting« as a new field of research and managed this as the responsible Group Manager. Burghardt has recurrently worked with additive manufacturing / 3D printing technologies for more than 13 years, focussing now on powders for additive manufacturing and powder-based AM technologies. Burghardt has authored 20+ technical and scientific publications and presented also 30+ technical papers at national and international conferences, symposia and workshops.