The Martian Mindset - A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm

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• Prof. Lucio Colombi Ciacchi
• Thursday 12 June 2025, 15:00-16:00
• LT6, First floor Baker building, Dept. of Engineering, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZ.

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For millennia, the advancement of technologies for the transformation of raw primary resources into value-added materials has been driven by the massive burning of fossil fuels. This has set us on a path toward a rapidly deteriorating environment, calling for a fundamental paradigm shift in materials and production engineering. At the University of Bremen, we have conceived a radical approach to tackle this challenge, which will both power a green transition on Earth and contribute to a sustainable human exploration of space. We place ourselves on Mars, a potentially habitable but inhospitable world with scarce resources, and rethink the production of materials and parts from scratch. We pursue three main goals: (1) developing (bio-)electrochemical methods for the synthesis of raw materials from low-grade resources; (2) designing and demonstrating low-energy process chains that use these raw materials as input to produce a variety of parts; and (3) devising concepts for production facilities jointly operated by human-robot teams and supported by digital representations of the production processes. The development of the “Martian Mindset” as a transformative, scarcity-driven engineering paradigm will involve the work of a large consortium of Bremen faculties and institutes over the next seven years, as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

This talk is part of the Lennard-Jones Centre series.

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