Academic Education 1986 Dipl.-Ing. Phys, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1989 PhD in Physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Professional Career since 2012 Chair (W3) of Institute of Microtechnolgy, Technische Universität Braunschweig, director of IMT 2007 - 2011 Program Manager, Holst Center TNO, Eindhoven Niederlande 2004 - 2011 Full Professor for Micro and Nano Scale Engeneering, Head of MNSE Section, TU Einhoven, Netherlands 2003 - 2004 Project Coordination “Basic development of inertial sensors of the 3rd generation“, Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen, 1996 - 2003 Department Manager, IBM Storage Technology Division, Laboratory for Analytics and Technology Projects, Mainz, Germany 1994 - 1996 Researcher, IBM Research Division, Zürich Research Laboratory Rüschlikon, Switzerland 1990 - 1994 Team leader TEM Group IBM Microelectronics Division, Laboratory for Surface and Structural Analysis Sindelfingen, 1989 - 1990 Post doctoral researcher, Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany Other professional activities Board Member "PVZ" (Center of Pharmaceutical Engineering) at the Technische Universität Braunschweig since its founding in May 2012 Representative of the double degree programme between the TU Braunschweig and the Université de Technologie de Compiègne set within the the German-French University Saarbrücken since 2012 Member of the professional association “AMA-Fachverbandes für Sensorik e.V.” since 2012 Member of the management team “MicroNed” (Dutch Consortium for Micro-Technology Research), 2004 – 2008 Reviewer for scientific journals (Sensors & Actuators, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics A und Micro- and Nanofluidics et. al.) Program Committee Member of several international conferences (IEEE MEMS, Transducers, 3M Nano et. al.)