Board of Directors

Dr.-Ing. Peter Grambow

Dr Peter Grambow studied electrical engineering in Darmstadt, specialising in high-frequency engineering and telecommunications. Peter Grambow completed his doctoral thesis "Technology and Analysis of Nanostructured Semiconductor Systems" at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. This was followed by industrial positions at Siemens, Infineon, 3D Connexion, Logitech and Infineon Austria. Most recently, Dr Grambow was responsible for product development in the Sense & Control division at Infineon. Since 2009 he has worked as a project manager, coach and lecturer. Since April 2010, Dr Grambow is Head of Operations of the Nanotechnology Cluster.

Prof. Dr. Franz Faupel

Professor Faupel is Chairman of the North European Initiative Nanotechnology (NINa SH e.V.) and founding member of the International Alliance of Societies for a Sustainable Future (SFS). Until March 2025, he held the Chair for Multicomponent Materials at Kiel University and, inter alia, carried out research on metallic glasses, functional nanocomposites, magnetoelectric sensors, photocatalysis, plasma deposition, and memristive devices for bioinspired neuromorphic computing. After a research stay as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights, he completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 1992.

Dr. Thomas R. Dietrich

Dr. Thomas Dietrich already worked in the field of micro and nanotechnology during his doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. After five years of research at the Institute of Microtechnology in Mainz IMM, Dr. Dietrich founded a company with a focus on micro process engineering. For this focus he was also a Focus Group leader at DECHEMA, AIChE and the corresponding DIN working committee, gave lectures at the University of Kaiserslautern and edited a book. Until 2024, Dr. Dietrich was CEO and since then Strategic Consultant of IVAM Microtechnology Network. In December 2021 he became member of the Board of Nano-in-Germany.

Prof. Dr. Jasmin Aghassi

Professor Aghassi-Hagmann teaches and researches in the field of electronic components and electronic systems of the future at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with a department at the Institute of Nanotechnology. She studied physics at RWTH Aachen University and gained her doctorate at the former University of Karlsruhe (now KIT). She then worked for almost six years in responsible positions in research and development in the semiconductor industry (Infineon Technologies/Intel). In 2013, she accepted a position at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences with a simultaneous research group at KIT on printed materials and components in the Helmholtz Association's Information research field. After a research semester at EMPA/ETH Zurich in 2019, she was appointed W3 professor at KIT in 2021.