Tim A. Osswald

Who is Tim A. Osswald?

Tim Andreas Osswald is a Mechanical Engineer and the K. K. and Cindy Wang Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also honorary Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and the National University of Colombia. Osswald has authored 12 books in the field of polymer engineering and teaches polymer processing and designing with polymers. His research includes modeling and simulation in polymer processing, engineering design with plastics, sustainability and biopolymers.

Osswald is co-founder and present co-director of the Polymer Engineering Center. The Center is dedicated to the solution of problems in the plastics industry through education, training, and research at the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2001.

Osswald serves as the English language editor of The Journal of Plastics Technology and as an editor for the Americas of the Journal of Polymer Engineering.