Klaus Stefan Drese

Director of Institute of Sensor and Actuator Technology, Coburg University of Applied Science and Arts

Coburg, Bavaria, Germany

About

Looking for: Projects that target for innovation in areas where my expertise is of use, i.e. new products that are picked up by the market and that use technology like sensor, microfluidics or modelling Background: Sensors (optical, acoustic, electrochemical, MEMS), Microtechnology, Microfluidics, Simulation/Modelling, Physics (and the Chemistry and Biology that is needed in Lab on a Chip technology), Manufacturing (especially for prototyping and in microtechnology but also injection moulding), System Design, Point of Care Testing, microTAS, Lab on a Chip, ... Project management, interdisciplinary team management

Experience

  • Director at Institut für Sensor und Aktortechnik - ISAT
    Oct 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

  • Professor at Coburg University
    Oct 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

  • Scientific Director at Fraunhofer IMM
    Jan 2014 - Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (15 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director Research and Development
      Feb 2007 - Dec 2013 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    • Head of Fluidics and Simulation Department
      Jan 2003 - Dec 2007 · 5 yrs

      Develop a route for micro fluidics to future products, management of an interdisciplinary R&D department, scientific consulting, technology scouting, and acquisition of R&D projects

    • Head of Simulation Group
      Aug 2000 - Dec 2002 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Simulation (CFD, FEM, ...), Scientific Consulting, Modeling (using full simulation, developing analytical and semianalytical models) Project management and management of the simulation group