Dr. Volker Saile

Dr. Volker Saile is a full professor in the faculty of mechanical engineering at Universität Karlsruhe in Germany and serves also as Director of the Institute for Microstructure Technology (IMT). IMT is a joint institute of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, a German national laboratory and the university in Karlsruhe. He served as Conference Director of COMS 2005 in Baden-Baden and as a member of the MANCEF GAC since 2006.

Research Activities

Dr. Saile's research has focussed on microsystems technology including nano- and microfabrication of components and applications of such components or of entire systems in optics, fluidics, and analytics. He is particularly interested in applications of synchrotron radiation in X-ray lithography and in X-ray optical devices and systems.

Education

Dr. Saile received his Ph.D. in physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München in 1976.

Scientific Experience

• 1975-1979 Assistant Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
• 1979-1985 Coordinator of VUV- und XUV Experiments at HASYLAB, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
• 1985-1989 Deputy Director of Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory HASYLAB at DESY, Hamburg, Germany
• 1979-1989 Staff Scientist at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg
• 11/89-01/98 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Physics, and Director of the J. Bennet Johnston, Sr., Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
• 02/98-date Professor of Microstructure Technology at Universität Karlsruhe, German
• 02/98-date Director of the Institute for Microstructure Technology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

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