DI Daniel G. Pressl

Holding a Light bulb after a "Perfect Shot" (the Light bulb structure persists) in the Strobe Laboratory at the Edgerton Center at MIT, 2007.

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a Materials Science Diploma from the Montanuniversität Leoben in Austria. He has worked in a variety of industries including the automotive industry, the biomaterials and medical implants sector and is now writing his thesis on electromagnetically-based welding techniques for the FORD – MIT alliance. Daniel owns his own company iPressl and is the founder of Redwired.org, a rapidly growing social networking site serving in a similar fashion as Facebook.com and Craigslist.org, but marketed specifically to Austrians. Furthermore, he is the CPO of the startup Aerogel Technologies, LLC working on new materials for the insulation market. In spring 2007 he was the organizer of 2fast4u, the Largest High Speed Photography Exhibition in the World, displaying more than 100 prints and more than a dozen interactives. Daniel is also an accomplished rock climber and speaks four languages fluently.

Find recent news and work on his blog: http://www.blog.ipressl.com