Per Ohlckers is Professor at Department of Microsystems, University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Horten, Norway from September 2005. He received his M.Sc. degree in Physical Electronics from Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH, now NTNU) in 1974. Per Ohlckers has contributed to the development of several successful commercial products and he more than 200 international scientific publications with focus on silicon sensor technology and micro- & nanotechnologies, including two patents. He is lecturing in semiconductor devices at USN, and earlier he lectured in Packaging & Interconnection Technology for Electronic Systems at USN and at University of Oslo using a textbook he has co-authored, which is used at several other universities in Scandinavia. His employment history includes positions as General Manager of the start-up microsystem company Diamond Nanomachines from 1999, Vice President, Research & Product Development at DAVIS, Drammen, Norway from 1998 to 1999, R&D Coordinator at SensoNor, Horten, Norway from 1995 to 1998, and 15 years at SINTEF Instrumentation in different positions: Deputy Director of Instrumentation Division, Research Manager, Microelectronics Section and Manager of Liaison Services Section. In addition he has been Adjunct Asc Professor and Adjunct Professor at Department of Physics, University of Oslo for 20 years. He had a 6 months stay as a visiting scientist at Electronics Design Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.