Dominic Flaig

My core competencies

Plastics: Injection molding, extrusion, tensile testing, TGA, DSC, MFR, OIT, permeation, hydrogen-plastic interaction, LTHS evaluation, secondary dispersions

Surfaces: Atmospheric pressure plasma, electroplating, painting, gluing, ATR-FTIR, ESEM-EDX, contact angle measurement, XPS, TOF-SIMS

Organization: Very good computer skills, documentation, OCR capture, design thinking, structuring and management of existing and new knowledge

Working method: Process-optimizing, efficiency-driven with a long-term focus

01/2024 – 03/2024 R&D Chemist Waterborne Coatings and Adhesives at Trüb Emulsions Chemie AG, Ramsen

Production, modification and testing of secondary dispersions on a laboratory and pilot plant scale

04/2019 – 09/2023 Materials engineer at Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme AG, Schaffhausen

Evaluation of new and support of existing plastics for global piping systems

Testing new materials for their technical properties and introducing them into production

Development, maintenance and provision of the central PE, PP, PUR and H2 material and knowledge base

Supporting suppliers and maintaining supplier contacts

Technical support for production companies, R&D, QM,

Marketing, sales and customers

Training of employees and customers

Methods: Compounding, injection molding, tensile testing, TGA, DSC, MFR, OIT, light microscopy, ATR-FTIR, SEM, media immersion test, media internal pressure test, autoclave test, permeation measurement, leakage measurement, time-temperature aging and extrapolation, design thinking

05/2018 - 11/2018 Master's thesis at Robert Bosch GmbH, Automotive Electronics division, Reutlingen-Kusterdingen

Thesis grade: 1.7 (DE), equivalent to 5.5 (CH)

Topic: Surface pretreatment of polyphenylene sulfide using atmospheric plasma

Methods: Atmospheric pressure plasma, contact angle measurement, adhesive and tensile tests, ATR-FTIR, REM-EDX, XPS, ToF-SIMS, TDS-GC/MS, TGA, DSC, XRD, surface resistance measurement, white light interferometry

09/2016 - 10/2018 Study of Applied Surface and Materials Science (M.Sc.) at 

Esslingen University and Aalen University

Overall grade: 1.7 (DE), equivalent to 5.5 (CH)

Visit to the European Coatings Show and Conference 2017, metallic construction materials, non-metal materials and composite materials, metal physics, advanced methods of non-destructive material testing, advanced materials, joining processes and bonding, corrosion-resistant metals, thin-film technology with laboratory, layer testing, modern electroplating processes with laboratory, product and Innovation management waterborne coatings, powder coating, radiation curing, process engineering, process modeling and simulation, corrosion protection with laboratory, polymer materials with laboratory, biopolymers, surface analysis, functional layers

03/2016 - 08/2016  Bachelor's thesis at Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA

Thesis grade: 1.3 (DE), equivalent to 5.75 (CH)

Topic: Surface Engineering of Chitosan and Polyethylene Bags using Atmospheric Pressure Plasma as Novel Materials for Food Packaging

Methods: Atmospheric Pressure Plasma, Contact Angle DSA Goniometry, ESEM, FRAP Assay, ATR-FTIR, XPS

03/2014 - 08/2016 Studies of applied chemistry (B.Sc.) at Reutlingen University, focusing on polymer chemistry and technology

Overall score: 2.2 (de), equivalent to 5.5 (CH)

Physical, organic and macromolecular chemistry, process engineering, environmental engineering, biochemistry, toxicology, mathematics, chromatography, spectroscopy, chemometrics, business administration, project management, marketing and sales, additives and compounding, laboratory physical, organic and macromolecular chemistry, laboratories for plastic processing and testing

09/2012 - 02/2014 Study of chemistry (B.Sc.) at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg

Inorganic and general chemistry, physics, safety and hazardous substances, organic chemistry, laboratory qualitative and quantitative analysis, physics internship