Dr. Marcel Röder

About

New Business Building for ZEISS 🚀 Leveraging AI and Robotics to automate greenhouse activities 🤖 Enthusiast for Beyond Innovation and long-term Business Development 💡 Background in Engineering (PhD) and Strategy Consulting (McKinsey) ⚙️

Experience

• ZEISS Group (Oberkochen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
  • Head of Controlled Environment Agriculture
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Leading new business building effort in the field of AgTech labor automation

  • Senior Manager - Beyond Innovation
    Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Building a long-term, high-risk business development vehicle at ZEISS called Beyond Innovation

  • Senior Manager Strategic Projects
    Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

• McKinsey & Company (Full-time · 2 yrs 9 mos)
  • Senior Associate Consultant
    Jan 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Associate Consultant
    Feb 2020 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr

• Hahn-Schickard (4 yrs 1 mo)
  • Group Leader Precision- and Polymertechnologies
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • PhD Student
    Jan 2016 - Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Ultra precision machining, injection molding, polymer optics, injection molded optics, polymer optics for medical applications

  • Deputy Group Leader Precision- and Polymertechnologies
    Jul 2018 - Sep 2018 · 3 mos

• Visiting Graduate Researcher at UCLA
  May 2015 - Oct 2015 · 6 mos

  Design, fabrication and characterization of an implant for electrical spinal cord stimulation to restore motor function after spinal cord injury

• Research Assistant at Fraunhofer-Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik IGB
  Jun 2013 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

  Working in the team for Interfacial Engineering and Materials Science, plasma provesses