Daniel Pressl

Current

• Founder and CEO at iPressl

Past

• Vice-Project Leader at Metalsa
• Intern in the Quality Research Center for Welding at Magna Steyr

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Montanuniversität Leoben
• Syracuse University

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Connections

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Industry

Think Tanks

Websites

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• My Company
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Daniel Pressl’s Summary

As an enterprising materials scientist with a successful entrepreneurship background I am able to lead projects, secure funding, and establish collaborations. I thrive both as part of a team and in an individual setting. My experience with cross-continental partnerships and language fluencies (German, English, Italian, Spanish) make me an ideal candidate for an organization with diverse goals.

Daniel Pressl’s Specialties:

Metals, Welding and Joining, Bio-Materials, Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Insulation, State-of-the-art Material Characterization, Logo and Website Design, High Speed Photography

Daniel Pressl’s Experience

• Founder and CEO

  iPressl

  (Think Tanks industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  www.blog.ipressl.com, www.ipressl.com

• Vice-Project Leader

  Metalsa

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Automotive industry)

  June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)

  Material selection, Design of Experiment, and establishment of contact with major material suppliers
  
  Supervision of Finite Element Analysis team, assembly line team, and prototyping team
  
  Established a base for the new process and led the company toward implementing it in there manufacturing chain
  
  (Project details confidential)

• Intern in the Quality Research Center for Welding

  Magna Steyr

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

  August 2002 — August 2002 (1 month)

  Corrosion, mechanical fatigue, and fracture of the material and joints was studied, using undisruptive crack analysis
  
  Prepared samples for tensile tests and hardness tests and performed metallurgical analysis of the joints

Daniel Pressl’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2004 — 2008

  Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  
  Thesis: “Optimization of Electromagnetic Welding for the Automotive Industry”
  
  Established a collaboration with two companies in Israel (PULSAR) and California (LSTC) to perform experiments and proof the simulation software efforts, thereby making expensive trial welding experiments unnecessary in the future

  Activities and Societies:

  MIT Lecture Series Committee (Publicity Design Worker), Cooperations with the Edgerton Center and the K-12 Program: 2fast4u High Speed Photography Exhibition (www.redwired.org/2fast4u), CINEATRIX (www.redwired.org/CINEATRIX)

• Montanuniversität Leoben

  Diploma Engineer , Materials Science , 1999 — 2004

  Diploma Engineer (equivalent to a Bachelors and Masters degree); Department of Material Science
  
  Thesis: “Characterization of Surface Modification of Titanium Alloys by Phospholipid Membrane Systems using AFM“
  
  Two posters (2004, 2007) have been presented and a scientific paper is in the process of being published
  
  Talk at the MRS conference in Boston, MA (2007)

• Syracuse University

  Materials Science - Biomaterials 2002 — 2002

  Collaboration on a research project with the Chairman of the Bio Materials Department, studying the effect of different surface treatments on the corrosion behavior of Titanium alloys
  
  Translated a Q-Basic program for the measurements into Visual Basic and built a chamber for the corrosions experiments
  
  Rheometry tests on bone cement were performed, as well as SEM/EDS and AFM
  
  Assisted with surgical hip implantation for a sheep; sterile procedure was used, heart rate and lung function monitored

  Activities and Societies:

  Member of the Bio Materials Research Group

Additional Information

Daniel Pressl’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My RSS feed

Daniel Pressl’s Interests:

Steel and some light metals Biomaterials Networking Ideas for the WWW, Web 2.0 New Technologies Arts and Design, Photography and Videography (Motion Design and Analysis) Traveling, Languages Music, Dancing Cooking, Good Food Boardgames, Chess, Poker. Sportsman (Rock Climbing, Triathlons, Judo, Adventure Races, Mountaineering, Hiking, Camping, Snowboarding, Skiing, Snowshoeing, Cross Country Skiing, Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Table Tennis, Squash, Soccer, Swimming, Running, Cycling, Ultimate Frisbee, Sailing, Surfing)

Daniel Pressl’s Groups:

Founder of MIT-Austria (www.ipressl.com/exchange.html)
Project Leader of Cineatrix - A Kimeki and iPressl Collab. (www.redwired.org/CINEATRIX)
CEO of redwired (www.redwired.org)
CPO of Aerogel Technologies, LLC
ISN Soldier Design Competition Team, Nasa Tether Challenge Team (www.ipressl.com/idea.html)
Organizer of 2fast4u (High Speed Photgraphy Exhibition in Austria, April 2007; www.redwired.org/2fast4u
BASIC Chess Teacher (Boston Area Scholastic Initiative for Chess)
Publicity Design Worker for the MIT Lecture Series Committee
http://www.smokesucks.at - Counselor
Alt-St. Pauler
BrandEins Community Member

Daniel Pressl’s Honors:

Director’s Award for Excellence in Meeting the ISN Soldier Design Comp. Challenge (Spring 2007), Departmental Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Winter 2004), Rektor Platzer Ring of the University of Leoben (Austria 2004), Certificate for Advanced Biomaterials Knowledge (2004), Success Scholarships at the University of Leoben - Austria (2002 and 2003), First University of Cambridge Certificate in English (Grade A) (2000), International Meeting of Sports Teaching Certificate (1999)

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