The Nano-Micro Interface

Hans-Jörg Fecht is Chaired Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Center of Excellence "Nano- and Micromaterials" at the University of Ulm and Senior Scientist for "Nanostructured Materials" at the Institute for Nanotechnology of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He studied material science at the University of Saarbrücken where he received his Ph.D. in 1984. He became full professor at the University of Augsburg after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the California Institute of Technology, USA. In 1993 he was appointed Professor at the Technical University Berlin. Hans-Jörg Fecht was awarded with the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG), named "Pioneer of Nanotechnology" (Deutsche Bank) and received the Innovation Award of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

Matthias Werner is Managing Director of the company Nano & Micro Technology Consulting (NMTC) in Berlin, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1994. He worked as a consultant and leader of a microtechnology expert team of Deutsche Bank AG for several years with major responsibility in establishing a micro and nano technology infrastructure. He acted as manager federal research programs and as consultant for the VDI/VDE-IT where he evaluated the funding of research and industry projects. He is chairman of various international conferences, member of the National Strategy Group for the UK Micro/Nano Manufacturing Initiative and the Institute of Nanotechnology, and coeditor of the International Magazine on Smart Systems Technology (mstnews).

Marcel Van de Voorde is special advisor at IMEC, Belgium. Currently, his knowledge and 40 years' experience in university education, research and management was honored with the gold medal of the Fondation du Mérite Européen. He studied industrial and chemical engineering and received his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Nancy-Université, France. He was co-founder and professor at the Hoger Instituut der Kempen, Geel, and the Technical Institute Don Bosco, Hoboken in Belgium. He further holds professorships at the Catholic University of Leuven, the Ghent University, the Delft University of Technology and is visiting professor at several recognized universities in Europe, US, Japan and China. He was active as advisor to various institutions such as the CERN, the European Commission and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.