»A clear strategy led to success.«

March 09, 2020

For nine years Prof. Hubert Lakner, head of the Fraunhofer IPMS, was spokesman of the directorate of the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics and since April 2017 chairman of the steering committee of the Research Factory Microelectronics Germany (FMD). To-gether with Prof. Lakner we looked back on his term of office.

Last modified: March 09, 2020

»The Fraunhofer Microelectronics Group was represented internationally at the INC conference series. The exchange at eye level with the partners in Europe, USA and Japan was important to me.«

May 2012 The 8th International Nanotechnology Conference on Communication and Cooperation (INC8) in Japan: The Microelectronics Alliance receives the mandate to host the international conference in Berlin in 2013.

»The Microelectronics Group is a strong group within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. We have often been a pilot - for example, when creating an alliance strategy.«

May 2016 Fraunhofer President Prof. Reimund Neugebauer presents Prof. Lakner with the Fraunhofer Medal for his services. The award ceremony took place during the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

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»A clear strategy for success. The FMD is a fine example of consistent strategic work and has advanced all institutes of the Microelectronics Alliance.«

April 2017 Handover of the notice of approval for the Research Factory Microelectronics Germany (FMD) by the then Minister of Education and Research Prof. Johanna Wanka.

»In microelectronics, France is Germany's most important partner in Europe in re-search, development and production. Together we were able to make a difference."«

June 2018 Signing of a cooperation agreement between Leti and the Microelectronics Alliance: State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Dr. Georg Schütte, Prof. Dr. Hubert Lakner, Deputy Director CEA Technology Jean-Frédéric Clerc, Director General at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation Alain Beretz (from left to right).

Personal:

Prof. Hubert Lakner studied physics at the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen. After one year of industrial activity in the development of coating processes, he moved to the Gerhard-Mercator-University - GH - Duisburg in 1987, where he worked on research projects in the field of nanocharacterization of mesoscopic compound semiconductor systems and received his doctorate in 1993. Since January 2003 Prof. Lakner is the managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS. At the same time, he was offered a professorship at the Technical University of Dresden. From January 2011 to December 2019 Prof. Lakner held the position of the spokesman of the Fraunhofer Group for Microelectronics. Since April 2017 he was also chairman of the steering committee of FMD. His deputy for these three terms of office was Prof. Anton Grabmaier, Director of the Fraunhofer IMS in Duisburg.