Jan Berger

Startup Entrepreneur

Villach, Carinthia, Austria

About

"How would nature ...?" This is my mantra, my inspiration. I use biomimetics and biomimicry as a tool to generate a continous flow of solutions to solve specific problems.

Experience

  • Startup Entrepreneur at Biomimetics Connect
    Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos

    A funding allows me and my partners to follow our vision of a biomimetics institute in Villach/Austria. I am supported by a funding of the KWF (Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds) and part of the start up accelerator by build! Gründerzentrum.

  • Board Member at bionikum:austria
    Jun 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

    Secretary-Deputy for the bionikum:austria association

  • Laboratory Technician at SGS Institut Fresenius
    Apr 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

    Since 01.01.2018 reduced to mini job level to follow my funding for an entrepreneurship. Consumer Testing Services - laboratory management - customer care and communication - spread resistance profiling - microscopy - manual grinding and polishing - additional projects: research for biomimetic products for or out of semiconductor industries

  • Guest Lecturer for International Project Week 2016/17 at Fachhochschule Nordhausen
    Apr 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

    1 week guest lecturer for the course: "Biomimetics in Engineering" See my reports on Blogionik.org http://www.blogionik.org/ipw-2016-1/ http://www.blogionik.org/international-project-week-2017/

  • Infineon Technologies (Villach, Austria)
    • Master Thesis
      Mar 2014 - Mar 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Filtration Device for Point-of-Care-Testing Applications - Design, Modelling and Fabrication Development of a small volume blood separation device from sketch! The ideas based on thin shells and the lithographic manipulation of it. Several biomimetic concepts are included during the research and development of the prototype. - Hexagonal structures for stability - Self-similarity for an easy scaling and calculation of the surface structure - Thin shells as modificational substitute for a double lipid bilayer membrane

    • Student Internship
      Mar 2013 - Mar 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Internship: Caretaker for MEMS microphone and tire-pressure fabrication, in Line