Experts

Technical University of Berlin

Basel Adams is a research associate, hardware and software developer, and project manager at the Technical University of Berlin. In his work, he cooperates with the “System-on-Flex” group at [...]

Samer Al-Magazachi received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Technische Universität Berlin. In 2016 he joined the Fraunhofer IZM as a student. Now he is a research fellow in the [...]

Katja Arnhold joined the Marketing & PR team at Fraunhofer IZM in May 2022. She is an editorial board member of RealIZM. Other focal points of her work at IZM are video marketing and market [...]

Rolf Aschenbrenner received a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering in 1986 and an M.Sc. in physics in 1991 from the University of Giessen. In 1994, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and [...]

Manuel Bäuscher studied electrical engineering at THM Mittelhessen in Friedberg, Hessen for his Bachelor’s degree. In 2019 he finished his Master’s degree at TU Berlin with the focus on [...]

Anton Berwald is a research associate and project manager in the Environmental and Reliability Engineering department at Fraunhofer IZM. He works in particular on environment-related projects that [...]

Mathilde Billaud has been with Fraunhofer IZM as a research fellow in the Institute’s “Environmental and reliability engineering” department since 2017. She holds a Master’s degree from the [...]

Tanja Braun studied mechanical engineering at Technical University of Berlin with a focus on polymers and micro systems and joined Fraunhofer IZM in 1999. Since 2000 she is working with the group [...]

VDMA

Ponappa Cheranda is a senior advisor in the field of micro technologies by VDMA. Contact information: ponnappa.cheranda@vdma.org[...]

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Yulia Fedorovich graduated in St. Petersburg for Economics and Management in Mechanical Engineering. As part of an exchange program, she received a second bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering [...]

Thomas Fritzsch received the diploma degree (M.Sc.) in electrical engineering from the University Dresden, Germany, in 1997. Since 2001 he has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and [...]

Vasiliki (Vasso) Giagka was born in Athens, Greece, in 1984. She received the M.Eng. degree in electronic and computer engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in [...]

Technical University of Berlin

Julia Günther-Sorge studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and was a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in the [...]

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 [...]

Daniel Hahn has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration as a scientist since 2011. He originally studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. [...]

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Martin Hempel received his diploma and Ph.D. in physics from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2009 and 2013. He worked as a PostDoc from 2013 to 2015 at the Max Born Institute and from 2015 to [...]

Stefan Hoffmann successfully completed his master’s degree at the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2010. At the beginning of 2011 he was assigned as a research assistant to the Power [...]

Melanie Jaeger-Erben has been Head of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Electronics at TU Berlin since June 2019. Her work focuses on consumption and social science technology research as [...]

Tapani Jokinen is an internationally recognized strategic & circular design expert. His 25 years of extensive experience in design give him a unique insight into managing complex businesses, [...]

Dr. Rafael Jordan completed his dissertation on energetic levels of photosynthesis systems in 2001. Subsequently he joined the Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin. At IZM his research covers state-of-the-art [...]

With a background in “physics”, “physical chemistry” and “technology in medicine”, he joined Fraunhofer IZM in 1994. Heading the group Advanced Microsystem Assembly, he developed [...]

Head of Department WLSI, site ASSID

Dr. Manuela Junghähnel is an expert in thin film, plasma and flexible glass technologies. She heads the WLSI department at Fraunhofer IZM-ASSID and is the Site Director of the institute in [...]

Michael Kaiser received his B.Sc. and the M.Sc. in electrical and computer engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 2014 and 2017. Since 2017, he has been working as a research [...]

Jacqueline Kamp holds a combined bachelor’s degree with a major in cultural history and theory and a minor in history. In May 2021, she took over an editorial position in the marketing department [...]

Oliver Kirsch completed his M.Sc. degree in applied physics at the Technical University of Berlin in 2017, studying deterministic quantum devices for quantum communication networks. From 2017 to [...]

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Ingenieurbüro Kuczmik

Adam Kuczmik received the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Technische Universität Berlin. In 2008 he joined the Fraunhofer IZM as a student. He completed his bachelor and master thesis at [...]

Klaus-Dieter Lang (M’08, SM’13, F’18) received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degrees in electrical engineering from Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, Germany, in 1981 and [...]

Wojciech Lewoczko-Adamczyk studied physics at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow (Poland) and received a doctoral degree from the Humboldt University in Berlin for his work on Bose-Einstein [...]

Marieke Lienert holds a double bachelor's degree in Communication Science and English/American Studies. From April 2019 until May 2021 she has occupied an editorial position in the marketing [...]

Dr. Max Marwede is Research Fellow at the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Fraunhofer IZM) and holds a PostDoc position in the Junior Research Group „Obsolescence as a [...]

Malina Metzing joined Fraunhofer IZM Berlin in 2011 as a student assistant in the area of placement algorithm and software development. After graduating in computer science at the Free University of [...]

Andreas Middendorf works as a business developer in the Business Development Team of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM). He was working as a scientist in the [...]

Dr. Ndip has been with the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM for almost two decades and has been heading the Institute’s RF and Smart Sensor Sys-tems operations since [...]

Hearable Labs

Polly O’Callaghan is co-founder and CEO of Hearable Labs. She has a B.Eng degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and an M.Sc. degree in Physics from University College Dublin. She has [...]

Ulf Oestermann is a business developer at Fraunhofer IZM. Contact information: +49 30 46403-235[...]

Marina Proske holds a Dipl.-Ing. in environmental engineering from Technische Universität Berlin. She works from Fraunhofer IZM since 2011 focusing on the topics eco-design and environmental [...]

Olaf Rämer started working at Fraunhofer IZM in 2016, coming from studying material science in his hometown of Berlin. His studies included researching metal foams, working for the Helmholtz Center [...]

Mike Richardson is a deep technology entrepreneur delivering value in some of the most challenging environments on Earth. He designs IoT devices for materials analysis utilizing photonic technology. [...]

Sigrid Rotzler joined Fraunhofer IZM in 2018 for her master’s thesis on the influence of washing factors on textile-integrated conductor tracks. During her studies, she was part of the [...]

Jana Rückschloss holds a diploma in environmental engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. She originally joined Fraunhofer IZM in 2004 as student fellow and has stayed with the [...]

Orion Additive Manufacturing GmbH

Adam Rumjahn is a Canadian born engineer and entrepreneur. His entrepreneurial pursuits has given him the experience of starting his own clothing line to making furniture and skateboards. His [...]

Dr. Vitalij Scenev graduated from Humboldt University Berlin with a Diploma in Experimental Physics in 2009, followed by a PhD in 2014. He joined PAS Deutschland GmbH in 2015 to contribute to the [...]

Karsten Schischke heads the Product Eco-Design and Circular Materials working group at Fraunhofer IZM and, together with his team, has been supporting the electronics industry and legislators for [...]

Professor Martin Schneider-Ramelow has established himself as one of Germany’s leading microelectronics researchers and teachers, serving as acting director of the Fraunhofer Institute for [...]

Bernd Schröder studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin. Afterwards, his work focused on the field of EDA tool development at Mentor Graphics, among others. In 2011, he moved [...]

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Julian Schwietering received his Master in Technical Physics at the University of Ilmenau in 2018. Currently, he is doing his Ph.D. at the TU Berlin, researching on glass-integrated optical [...]

Bogdan Sirbu received his degree in telecommunications engineering from the Politecnica University of Madrid in 2012. He is currently pursuing his PhD thesis plasmonics and photonics research at the [...]

Technical University of Berlin

Lars Stagun, a TU Berlin alumnus, started at Fraunhofer IZM in 2016 when he joined the System on Flex group as a student researcher. He wrote his master’s thesis in mechanical engineering on the [...]

Lutz Stobbe received his PhD in Japanese Studies from the Free University of Berlin and has been a researcher in the Environmental and Reliability Engineering Department at the Fraunhofer Institute [...]

Tolga Tekin has completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at the Technical University of Berlin in 2004, before beginning his career as a research scientist in Fraunhofer [...]

Public Relations

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Michael Töpper has an M.S. degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. degree in material science. Since 1994, he has been with the Packaging Research Team at TU Berlin and Fraunhofer IZM. In 1997, he became [...]

Christian Tschoban was born on 25. February 1985. He studied electrical engineering at the Dresden University of Technology and received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2010. Since then he has been working [...]

Andrada Velea was born in Timisoara, Romania, in 1994. She received her BSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunications in 2017 from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara and then moved to Delft [...]

After completing his training as a physics lab technician, Steve studied physical engineering at Beuth University in Berlin, already spending more than 2 years as an undergraduate assistant at [...]

Malte von Krshiwoblozki is heading the Group System on Flex at the Fraunhofer (IZM) Institute for Reliability and Microintegration where he is responsible for all e-Textile activities. Before that, [...]

Group Manager Technology Reliability Simulation

Dr. Olaf Wittler studied physics in Paderborn, Berlin, and London. He received his diploma degree in 1999 and Ph.D. in 2004 from the Technical University of Berlin. His work experience includes [...]

M. Juergen Wolf received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Chemnitz before starting out in his professional career as a technology supervisor in the [...]

Covert Science GmbH

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Dr. Alethea Vanessa Zamora Gómez completed her PhD in Physics in the optical fiber group at the University of Valencia in 2010. Her PhD research included a brief stay at the Max-Planck Institute for [...]