Robert Hahn is head of the Micro Energy Group at Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin. Since completing his M.Sc. and PhD in electrical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden in 1986 and 1990, he has been in charge of coordinating several domestic and European research projects for the development of new batteries and integrated power supplies for micro systems and autonomous electronics.

Dr. Hahn has filed 30 patents in the area of micro energy systems and authored or co-authored more than 100 periodical and conference papers and contributions to monographs. His research focusses on the development of wafer-integrated micro batteries, 3D silicon processing, and energy harvesting.

He was coordinator of the FP7 project MATFLEXEND that developed integrated micro batteries and capacitive harvesters. His team is currently working on several projects for the development of micro batteries for medical micro systems and miniaturized data loggers.