Prof. Dr. Ulrich Prahl is the head of the Institute for Metal Forming at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Saxonia, Germany. He obtained his diploma in Mathematics at the TU Clausthal in 1996. Subsequently, he moved to RWTH Aachen University where he received a Dr.-Ing. in Material Mechanics in 2002. Later he joined the Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy at RWTH Aachen University in a post-doc position, heading a scientific working group on material simulation. Since 2017, he has held a professorship for forming technologies at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His interests are in metal forming and material production technology development for semi-finished metallic products through the application of experimental as well as numerical simulation. He studies material flow, microstructure evolution, and the property development of steels and metallic materials in forming-based production technologies. He applies microstructure-based modelling and characterization of materials to achieve the through-process prediction of final material properties. He uses combined lab experiments, thermodynamic–kinetic, and thermomechanical approaches for the quantitative correlation of microstructure and mechanical–technological properties in the systematic design of alloys and processes.