Prof. Dr. Gerald Gerlach received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Dresden University of Technology in 1983 and 1987, respectively. He worked in research and development in the field of sensors and measuring devices at several companies. In 1993, he became a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden University of Technology). From 1996 through 2024, Professor Gerlach was the Head of the Solid-State Electronics Laboratory. His research is focused on sensor and MEMS technology, simulation and modeling of micromechanical devices, and the development of solid-state sensors, e.g., pyroelectric infrared sensors and piezoresistive chemical sensors. From 2007 to 2010, he served as President of the German Society for Measurement and Automatic Control (GMA). From 2007 to 2008, he was Vice President and President of EUREL (The Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers of Europe), respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he was Chairman of the German Association of Technical-scientific Societies (DVT). He served as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Journal for almost 10 years and was Founding Chief Editor of JSSS, the Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems.