Dr. Andreas Wild
Dr. Andreas Wild has a MS from the University Politehnica Bucharest and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest. He worked in various R&D and management capacities at IPRS Băneasa (1974); at Motorola, Semiconductor Product Sector (1982) in Germany, U.S.A. and France becoming its chief technologist; and at its spin-off Freescale Semiconductor (2005). In parallel he run the world-wide Motorola SPS University Program and delivered lectures at several Universities in Romania, SUA and France. Dr. Wild authored 36 patents and more than 80 papers and book chapters; chaired or was a member in the Technical Committee of international conferences (ESSCIRC/ESDERC); and co-founded and co-chaired the Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM), becoming a Fellow of the Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI). In 2009, Dr. Wild became Executive Director of ENIAC Joint Undertaking, then ECSEL JU, autonomous public-private partnerships of the European Union co-funding research in nanoelectronics, embedded software and smart system integration. He retired in 2015, becoming a consultant. He is a member of the Commission for the Science and Technology of Microsystems of the Romanian Academy. In 2017 SEMI Europe recognized him with the "Special Service Award".