Published on 11.08.2014 under News
matrix expands technology team significantly
Three new employees have recently joined the Matrix technology team: the biotechnologist Dr. Ulrich Gerth, the materials physicist Anna Moros and the mechatronics engineer Niels Lichtenthäler. You not only bring in different subject-related disciplines, but also very different professional experiences.
"In our projects and inquiries, we recognize significantly changed and also higher competence requirements at the interface between economic, communicative and, above all, technological competence," says Matrix Managing Director Dr. Klaus Bömken, himself a physicist. “We are responding to this in a very targeted manner with our new team members in important growth areas. So we stay true to our basic concept as a matrix team.
Dr. Ulrich Gerth has been one of the well-known transfer managers in the biotech scene for years. He is particularly concerned with the assessment of potential and the financing of relevant findings and technological innovations for drug research. He is currently supporting Max Planck partners in the development and implementation of a complex translation model called CARE (Center for Applied Regenerative Development Technologies), a top international institute dedicated to the research and industrial use of induced pluripotent stem cells.
Anna Moros worked until the middle of the year as a materials physicist at the renowned institute of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wilde at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. During this time she devoted herself to questions of principle and application of interspaces in the nanoscale - among other things in cooperation with the National Center for Electron Microscopy at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. The focus of her work at Matrix is on the interface between universities and companies - for example in joint projects in the field of "surface", which is a strategically particularly important field of action for many medium-sized industrial companies. In addition, Anna Moros will work on expanding the focus of study orientation in the “Future through Innovation” (zdi) joint offensive, which Matrix oversees for the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. With over 2.600 partners from business, universities and schools, zdi is the largest network for promoting young MINT talent in Germany.
Niels Lichtenthäler most recently worked at the Institute for Solar Research at the German Aerospace Center as a developer and project manager. There he was mainly responsible for the implementation of industrial projects. Before that, he completed a particularly broad education. Initially, he completed a dual course of study as a power electronics technician specializing in industrial engineering and, at the same time, completed his degree as a mechatronics engineer. At DLR, he also completed an MBA course while working. At Matrix, he deals with the subject of Industry 4.0, among other things, and is thus devoted to the question of how the factory of the future must be designed in order to meet significantly changed requirements for production and energy efficiency, resource conservation and internal and inter-company communication. He is interested - also personally - in the much-discussed possible effects on future qualification profiles and on the labor market (keyword “factory devoid of people”). Niels Lichtenthäler is also used at zdi, especially in supporting regional zdi networks in the use of ERDF and other funding programs.
