Doctor Yavuz Murtezaoglu

    CIRP CMAG Chairman since August 2022
    Founder and Managing Director of ModuleWorks GmbH, Germany

Dr. Murtezaoglu studied electrical engineering and worked at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL Aachen. After graduating in 1994 from the Technical University of North Rhine-Westphalia (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany, he first worked as a software developer in Houston, Texas. In 1997, he came back to Germany and co-founded his first company.

With his passion for discovery and under the supervision of Professor Fred van Houten and Professor Ian Gibson, Yavuz Murtezaoglu earned his doctorate from the University of Twente in 2021 for the thesis “Process Planning for Additive Manufacturing”.

In the past 25 years, Dr. Yavuz Murtezaoglu has hugely contributed to broad usage of 5 axis continuous machining in manufacturing by developing and providing 5-axis tool path planning algorithms and making them embeddable into the majority of CAD/CAM systems.
Many Machine Tool Vendors and CNC control makers use the real-time Collision Avoidance System developed by ModuleWorks, the company founded by Dr. Yavuz Murtezaoglu, to prevent damage to running machines.

Throughout his complete professional career, Dr. Yavuz Murtezaoglu focused on generating value for production engineering by developing sophisticated software algorithms and trained more than 200 software developers in his company in this domain.

Dr. Yavuz Murtezaoglu met his wife Hava, an architect, while studying in Aachen. They have three children.