Fraunhofer Representative Office JapanChief Representative Japan
May. 2001 - Dec. 2013Tokyo, JapanA2B Academia to Business, contract research and scientific collaborations.
• Quadrupled High-Tech Research for big Japanese Companies to 12 Mio. €/a
• Opened R&D lab: “Fraunhofer Project Center NEMS/ MEMS devices and manufacturing technologies at Tohoku University” in 2012
• Initiated and chaired conferences, like "Life Cycle Engineering" with Tokyo University in 2002, “German-Japanese Solar Day 2010” & “…2012” with NEDO, AIST, METI, BMU, BMBF
• Initiated first EU-Japan projects with Japanese Companies: EURASIAPAC (2010-11) for IT, NGCPV (2011-13) for Concentrator Photovoltaic and JEDI-ACE (2012-14) for Aircraft Anti Icing