Dr. Olaf Wittler studied physics in Paderborn, Berlin and London. He received his diploma in 1999 and his doctorate in 2004 from the Technical University of Berlin.

His professional experience includes various positions at Robert Bosch GmbH, TU Berlin and Fraunhofer IZM, where he is currently a senior scientist in the field of “Technology Reliability Simulation”.

He is author and co-author of more than 100 conference and journal papers. He is actively involved in peer review, teaching and association work.

In 2022, he took over the co-chairmanship of ESREF, a conference on electronics reliability, in Berlin. His current research interests include warpage prediction in FO-WLP, FO-PLP and PCB embedded packages, reliability and aging of RF packages and materials, advanced damage modeling in power electronics interconnect technologies, and reliability of substrates and via technologies.