Executive Vice President for Technology Marketing and Business Models

Biography

Born on August 17, 1970 in Lübeck
 

Academic and professional career

• since 10/2019 Executive Vice President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., Technology Marketing and Business Models
• 2018–2019 Head of Fraunhofer Group for Materials and Components – MATERIALS
• since 2006 W3 professor for experimental physics at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, chair of Microstructure-based Materials Design
• 2006–2019 Institute director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems, Halle
• 2003–2006 C4 professor for experimental physics at the University of Paderborn, chair of Nanophotonic Materials
• 1999–2003 Leader of a junior research group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle in the field of the application of porous materials
• 1998–1999 Research assistant at the Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, England. Research in the field of thin film technologies, i.a. flat panel displays
• 1995–1997 Doctoral candidate at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and at the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• 1990–1995 Studies of physics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Awards/honors 

• 2004 One of the 101 most important minds in Germany awarded by Financial Times Deutschland
• 2003 Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
• 2003 TR100 young innovators award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2002 Innovations award of Dow Chemical Deutschland

Memberships, Advisory and Reviewer Services

• Member of the German Physical Society (DPG)
• Member of the Electrochemical Society
• Member of the Optical Society of America
• Member of the Materials Research Society
• Co-Editor of Applied Physics A
• Member of the International Advisory Board of »Photonics and Nanostructures«, Elsevier Press