Helmut Lachmund
Helmut Lachmund was Head of the R&D Department Steelmaking of Dillinger from 1999 to 2021. He completed his diploma degree in metallurgy at the Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy at the University of Clausthal in 1987. Subsequently he became scientific assistant at this Institute and received his Ph.D. in 1991. Directly following he joined Dillinger in the R&D Department Steelmaking. In 1994 he has received an ATS Award from the French Iron and Steel Institute. In 2002 and 2008 he was recipient of the Charles H. Herty, Jr. Award of the AIST Oxygen Steelmaking Technology Division. In 2007 he was nominated as a member of the Technical Group “Steelmaking Processes” by the European Commission. In 2019, he was appointed by RWTH Aachen to the Industrial Advisory Board of the Cluster of Excellence Internet of Production.