Prof. Dr. Andreas Dietzel

Andreas Dietzel studied physics at the University of Göttingen and received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics. From 1990 to 2003, he worked for IBM research and development at laboratories of the Microelectronics Division in Böblingen (D), the Research Division in Rüschlikon (CH), and the Storage Systems Division in Mainz (D), where from 1996 to 2003 he was Head of Department. In 2003, he joined Robert Bosch Reutlingen (D) as a project manager for the project "Base development of acceleration sensors of the 3rd generation". In 2004, he joined the University of Technology in Eindhoven (NL) as a full professor of "Micro and Nanoscale Engineering". In the years 2007 to 2011, he was also the program manager for the TNO Holst Centre System-in-Foil open innovation platform. In 2012, he was appointed professor at the University of Technology in Braunschweig (D) and has since been head of the Institute of Microtechnology. His research focuses on designing and fabricating microsystems, especially microfluidic systems with applications in the life sciences.