Maik Hampicke studied electrical engineering at the Technical University Berlin with a major in Electronic Systems. Afterwards he worked on the DFG project SENTHA, focusing on speech recognition and communication systems before completing his doctorate on the topic of optimization of smart home systems at the Technical University Cottbus. He then worked in a small-medium enterprise developing and deploying broadband networks. Since 2007 he has been part of the Fraunhofer IZM, starting in the Application Center — responsible for the development of new application areas of microsystems technology in various industry fields and the management of development projects — before transitioning to Institute Management, where he was consultant, responsible for the coordination of internal research programs, the development of overarching projects and the cooperation with the research focus “Technologies of Microperipherals” at TU Berlin. Since the beginning of the year 2023, he has taken over the lead office management position of the Digital Networking Performance Centre. The Center of Excellence is a merger of the four Berlin Fraunhofer Institutes tasked, among other things, with promoting the transfer of digitization solutions from the institutes to the economy.
The four Fraunhofer institutes – Fraunhofer FOKUS, Fraunhofer HHI, Fraunhofer IPK, and Fraunhofer IZM – have been cooperating under the umbrella of the Berlin Center for Digital Transformation since 2017, pooling their expertise in the fields of information and communication…
Progressive digitalization driven by advanced assembly and packaging Digitalization is happening right now in almost all areas of our world. With increasing numbers of end products getting connected, more and more custom systems are required to run them – with…
