Muhannad Ghanam was born in 1982 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He graduated from the Institute of Microsystems at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2010. From 2011 to 2016, he worked as a process engineer at Micropelt GmbH, where he was responsible for the back-end process development for producing micro thermoelectric generators (TEGs). Since 2017, he has worked in R&D and process development at the Laboratory for Microsystems Design, Institute of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg. His research focuses on the development of cleanroom processes for the fabrication of MEMS-based evaporator chips. In 2020, he started his doctoral thesis on developing capacitive MEMS force and pressure sensors for high-temperature applications.