Introduction of Stefan Baiker

Stefan Baiker, born in 1966, has majored in mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing. HTL) at the Technical University in Rapperswil, Switzerland. Just after graduating he worked as a project engineer for Ciba-Geigy in Kaoshiung, which is in the South of Taiwan. He lived in Taiwan for 3 years before returning to Switzerland. In the year 2000, the magazine MFN was founded. Steven is the publisher of this magazine. He gave a paper on shot peening at the ICSP6 in San Francisco and during the ICSP8 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he was allowed to chair the session Fatigue of Light-Weight Alloys. Steven has organised several shot peening workshops and trade shows around the world and has written over 80 articles on peening and blasting in a number of surface preparation magazines.