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Carineh Ghafafian<\/strong>, Ph.D., Technical University of Berlin (TUB), is a Composites Engineer at Saertex. In TUB she has worked in material, mechanical, and aerospace engineering on sustainable composite applications, including wind energy and hydrogen storage solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within composites manufacturing, her work has focused on repairing components for extended service, incorporating recyclability into existing structures, and developing waste reduction production methods to directly address the need for end-of-life solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to her student mentoring at work, she has made conscious efforts to weave in teaching of STEM topics to diverse audiences, including women from migrant backgrounds who resettled in Germany and pre-university students in small towns in Armenia. Her experiences in different industries and multiple countries have driven her to advocate for an end-of-life prioritization when approaching design problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carineh Ghafafian, Ph.D., Technical University of Berlin (TUB), is a Composites Engineer at Saerte. In TUB she has worked in material, mechanical, and aerospace engineering on sustainable composite applications, including wind energy and hydrogen storage solutions.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3984,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"inline_featured_image":false},"member-role":[28],"class_list":["post-3983","arpa-team-member","type-arpa-team-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","member-role-board-member"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arpa-team-member\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arpa-team-member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/arpa-team-member"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arpa-team-member\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arpa-team-member\/3983\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"member-role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arpainstitute.org\/hy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-role?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}