Professionally I build technology, and the team that develops core components for a new semiconductor lithography tool at ZEISS SMT. I have learned in the field how those tools are used during my time as resident at the international semiconductor research institute imec at Belgium, where I was an international assignee for two years.
I have leadership experience as head of an R&D group in coating technology at ZEISS semiconductor manufacturing segment (SMT). I have led C-level strategic corporate projects and, and worked as innovation manager at corporate research and technology of Carl Zeiss AG on deep tech innovation.
Before joining ZEISS, I developed business models and led pre-development projects around simulation, sensors and machine learning as Innovation Manager at the German technology and engineering company Voith, .
By training I am a physicist, I have studied in Erlangen and York and I have done research in nanophotonics, optics and plasmonics at the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials of University of Erlangen, at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen and I was a visiting scientist at Caltech in the USA.
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