Physicist with back-ground in electronics and photonics technologies and applications;
Director of EPoSS; Lead Delegate in the Chips JU GB for EPoSS and Chairperson of the Electronics Components and Systems Strategic research Agenda (ECS SRIA) in 2021 and 2022.
Elisabeth studied physics at RWTH Aachen, Germany with focus on semiconductor technologies and received her Ph.D. in physics from Technical University Berlin in the field of in-situ metrology of III-V materials. For more than 20 years she was active in the field of compound semiconductors (mainly LED / Laser fabrication and characterisation).
She was co-founder and CMO of LayTec GmbH, a very successful start-up from TU Berlin in 1999.
In 2013 Elisabeth joined VDI/VDE Innovation and Technology GmbH as project officer for national and European funded projects and was a German delegate in the public authority board of the EUREKA Clusters CATRENE and later PENTA. Since 2019 she is Director of EPoSS.
