Founder & Managing Director of nextnano GmbH, a Munich-based company developing software for the simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor nanodevices that exploit quantum effects.
Applications include nanotransistors, LEDs, laser diodes, quantum dots, nanowires, quantum cascade lasers, HEMTs, photodetectors, solar cells and qubits.
He holds a Master of Physics degree from the University of Exeter, UK, and a PhD in Physics from the Technische Universität München, Germany, where he worked at the Walter Schottky Institute in the field of Theoretical Semiconductor Physics.
Since 2020, he is contributing to the development of flying electron qubits within the EU project UltraFastNano (www.ultrafastnano.eu).