Piezoelectric Bending Transducers

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger G. Ballas holds the professorship for electrical engineering and is at Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany. In addition to his activity as vice dean of the department of engineering sciences at Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule, his research activities focus in particular on piezoelectric materials, sensors and actuators as well as onpiezoelectric energy harvesting and (micro-)electromechanical systems (MEMS). Before his university career he held leading positions in research and development at different companies concerned with piezoelectric sensors and actuators. He earned his doctorate degree at Technical University Darmstadt, Germany for his research work in the field of piezoelectric multilayered bending actuators. During his pre-doctoral studies he already received several awards for outstanding work in the field of microstructuring of quartz crystals for high-frequency applications in modern telecommunications technologies. Furthermore, in2017 he received the IAAM Medal due to notable and outstanding contribution in the field of "New Age Technology & Innovations", Stockholm, Sweden. He is author of various publications and author/co-author of several textbooks published by the renowned publisher Springer Nature. Besides amateur astronomy, his passionate hobbies include playing acoustic fingerpicking/fingerstyle guitar and singing.