The people behind SilOriX

Carsten is responsible for the chip design and the opto-electronic packaging of the SilOriX devices.

He studied microsystem technology and received his PhD in electrotechnical engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Afterwards, he was leading research groups in the field of printed sensor systems and hybrid photonic integrated circuits.

At SilOriX Adrian leads the process development regarding the organic components.

Adrian studied Physics and received a PhD in engineering investigating organic electro-optic devices at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). During his time as a postdoc at KIT, Adrian worked in the field of printed organic sensor-systems.

Christian received the PhD (Dr.-Ing.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in 2007. From 2008 to 2010, he was affiliated with the Corporate Research and Technology department of Carl Zeiss AG, where he led the technology forecast in the area of nanotechnology.

Since 2010, he is a full professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he is heading the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ). Christian has received several research awards and prestigious grants and is actively engaged in start-up companies in the field of photonics.