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- Woodburytype
- Lippmann
- Optics
- Colloidal Chemistry
- liquid crystals
- colour science
- Woodbury gravure
- Artificial Intelligence
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- Qualifications:FInstP
- Position:Associate Professor
- Department:ACE - Art and Design
- Telephone:+4411732 83583
- Email:Susanne.Klein@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Dr Susanne Klein FInstP has been appointed a 5year EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship at the Centre for Fine Print Research starting January 2018. With her expertise in colloidal chemistry, optics and 3D printing, she is working on the reinvention of old printing technologies, such as Woodburytype and Lippmann photography, which will allow production of high quality prints for advertising, packaging, fashion and, at the same time, include fake-proof security features. By transferring the principals of historic, high quality, continuous tone printing processes to 2.5 D non-impact printing and the formulation of special inks, it will be possible to print any size on any substrate. Combining this new process with Lippmann photography will lead to a full colour, non-pixelated printing process with in-built security features. The grant has ended in September 2023. Susanne Klein is now interested in Woodbury gravure, a continuous tone relief print methods, colour separation beyond RGB, and image generation with artificial intelligence generating 'copper etchings' based on photographic images.
Dr Klein has been part of collaborative projects with the University of Bristol, the University of Portsmouth, the Otto-van-Guericke Universitaet, Magdeburg (Germany), Kent State University (USA), Université du Luxembourg, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, CNRS Université Paris-Sud (France) and the National Academy of Science of the Ukraine.
Dr Klein holds a diploma in theoretical physics and a PhD in medical physics. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. She was a German Telecom Research Fellow and a Royal Society Research Associate. She was the chair of the British Liquid Crystal Society. She is a committee member of the IOP special interest group 'Print and Graphics Science'. She is a member of the steering committee of the London Imaging Conference. She is a visiting fellow at the University of Leeds.
After 3 years as Royal Society Research Associate at the University of Bristol, Dr Klein has worked for 19 years at Hewlett Packard and then at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She is now Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research.
Area of expertise
Optics, colour science, colloidal chemistry, relief and intaglio printing, Woodburytype, Lippmann Photography; liquid crystals;Woodbury gravure; artificial intelligence
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