Executive vice president for Research Infrastructures and Digital Transformation

Biography

Academic and professional career

• Since 8/2022 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e. V., Munich
  Executive vice president for Research Infrastructures and Digital Transformation
• 1/2021 – 7/2022 Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMS, Duisburg (Germany)
  Acting executive director
• Since 7/2020 Kiel University
  Professor (W3) for Microsystems and Technology Transfer
• 10/2016 – 7/2022 Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology ISIT, Itzehoe (Germany)
  Executive director
• 5/2007 – 5/2018 Centrosolar America Inc., Scottsdale (USA)
  Member of the management board
• 7/2014 – 1/2015 TRUMPF GmbH & Co. KG, Ditzingen (Germany)
  Head of Strategy        
• 7/2005 – 3/2014 Centrosolar Group AG, Munich
  Member of the management board, Co-Founder
• 2/1998 – 6/2005 McKinsey & Company, Inc., Berlin and Hamburg
  Management consultant
• 7/1997 - 2/2000 Heidelberg University
  Lecturer (on leave since 2/1998)
• 7/1997 Heidelberg University
  Habilitation in physics
• 1995 – 1997 Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
  Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1994 – 1995 CEA, Saclay/Paris
  Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1993 – 1994 University of Toronto
  Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1992 – 1993 Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
  Fellow
• 2/1992 Heidelberg University
  Doctorate in physics
• 11/1989 – 2/1992 Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg
  Heidelberg University
  Doctoral studies in physics
• 11/1989 University of Bonn
  Forschungszentrum Jülich
  Degree in physics
  
• 10/1984 – 11/1989 Kiel University (intermediate exam)
  University of Bonn
  Major in physics