ESIM PROJECT - Key Persons


Adrian Hoffmann

Job Titles:
  • Lab Assistant

Ahmad Bagheri

Job Titles:
  • Student

Albrecht Wäntig

Job Titles:
  • Student

Alexander Tahn

Job Titles:
  • Technical Engineer / Application Specialist FIB

Ali Shaygan Nia

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Leader
Ali received his PhD in June 2016 from "macromolecular chemistry department of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg". He joined Prof. Feng's group in July 2016 and his current research interest is on upscaling and modifying the electrochemical exfoliation of graphene.

Alina Müller

Job Titles:
  • Student

Alyna Ong

Job Titles:
  • Student

Annett Müller

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of Prof. Xinliang Feng

Antje Werner

Job Titles:
  • Technical Chemical Engineer

Anupam Prasoon

Job Titles:
  • Student

Armin Darjani

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Boris S. Borisov

Job Titles:
  • Student

Caio Vieira

Job Titles:
  • Visiting PhD Student

Cecilia de la Parra

Cecilia de la Parra is a co-supervised Ph.D. student at Robert Bosch GMBH, since 2018. She is working on the topic of Digital Hardware for Approximate Computing of Deep Neural Networks.

Cheung Kong

Job Titles:
  • Guest Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, China ( 2017 )

Christian Menard

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Christiane Kunath

Job Titles:
  • Communication Design

Clément Fournier

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Conny Okuma

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Davood Sabaghi

Job Titles:
  • Student
Davood received his Master's Degree in September 2014 from Sharif university of Technology. He worked as Research assistant in Ferdowsi university and IFW institute Dresden. He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from June, 2019. His current research topic focuses on Synthesis and application of novel 2D materials for energy storage.

Doreen Beyer

Job Titles:
  • COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE 1415 / SFB 1415

Dr. Anatol Prudnikau


Dr. Andrés Goens

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
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Dr. Benjamin Friedrich

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader Biological Algorithms Group
  • Research Group Leader Biological Algorithms

Dr. Bernd Rellinghaus

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  • Director

Dr. Darius Pohl

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  • Senior Scientist TEM

Dr. Dora Tang

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  • Research Group Leader

Dr. Fabian Paulus

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Leader
  • Transport

Dr. Fazal Hameed

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  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Florian Auras

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Leader

Dr. Francesca Moresco

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader Single Molecule Machines Group
  • Research Group Leader Molecular Nano Machines

Dr. Gerald Hempel

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  • Postdoc Researcher

Dr. Haixia Zhong

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  • Professor at State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization

Dr. Hanjun Sun

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  • Professor at Nanjing Normal University

Dr. Huaping Wang

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  • Professor at Capital Normal University

Dr. Jason Melidonie

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  • Account Manager, Novartis )

Dr. Jiantong Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Dr. Jin Huang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Dr. Juliane Hundert


Dr. Jörg Schuster

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader Modeling and Simulation

Dr. Lanlan Wang

Job Titles:
  • Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Lucia Gemma Delogu

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  • Professor at Padua University

Dr. Marco Zimmerling

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  • Group Leader Networked Embedded Systems Group

Dr. Maria Aránzazu Garitagoitia Cid

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  • Student

Dr. Markus Löffler

Job Titles:
  • Specialist SEM and X - Ray Tomography

Dr. Martin R. Lohe

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  • Industry Project Coordinator

Dr. Meik Dörpinghaus

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader Dörpinghaus Group -

Dr. Panpan Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Dr. rer. nat. Malte Schröder

Job Titles:
  • Senior Researcher, Head of Research Team "Collective Dynamics of Sustainable Mobility"

Dr. Ronny Grünker

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader
  • AM30 Local Organizer
Ronny has a background in chemistry where he collected diverse knowledge in the fields of organic (diploma), inorganic (PhD) and macromolecular chemistry (PostDoc). In October 2014, he joined the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at cfaed.

Dr. Sascha Hermann

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader Carbon Nanotube Integration and Applications

Dr. Sebastian Ertel

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  • Postdoc Researcher

Dr. Sebastian Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Specialist in Electron Holography, EMCD and Skyrmions

Dr. Shaohua Liu

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  • Professor at East China Normal University

Dr. Steffen Köhler

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
  • Research

Dr. Sven Karol

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  • Postdoc Researcher
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Dr. Tao Zhang

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  • Professor

Dr. Tobias A. F. König

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  • Fellow and Junior Group Leader

Dr. Uta Schneider - COO

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  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Operations Director

Dr. Wee Jun Ong

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  • Professor at Xiamen University

Dr. Wei Li

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  • Young Research Fellow at Lanzhou University )

Dr. Willem van Dorp

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  • Senior Scientist

Dr. Xiang Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Xiaodong Zhuang

Job Titles:
  • Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Xu Wang

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  • Professor at Sichuan University

Dr. Yang Hou

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  • Professor at Zhejiang University

Dr. Yannan Liu

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  • Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Zhikun Zheng

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  • Professor at Sun Yat - Sen University

Dr.-Ing. Asif Ali Khan

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr.-Ing. Robert Kirchner

Job Titles:
  • Heisenberg - Research Group Leader

Dr.-Ing. Sascha Klüppelholz

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Computer Science

Elias Trommer

Elias Trommer is a co-supervised Ph.D. student at Infineon, since 2020. He is working on the topic of Co-Design of Algorithms and Hardware for Low-Power Machine Learning Inference.

Felix Suchert

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Fritz Seltmann


Galina Kozyreva

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Galina Kozyreva received her Diploma degree in Computer Science from the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace and Instrumentation in 2015. Her major specialisation is automated information processing and control systems. Since then she has been working as software engineer in various roles. This included work on databases, security, reactive software, micro services and data mining. In March 2021, she joined the chair as research assistant, where she works in the area of domain-specific languages and compilers, with focus on MLIR progressive lowering and advanced optimizations for parallel and emerging computing systems.

Gundula Schädlich

Job Titles:
  • Secretary, Teaching Inquiries

Hamid Farzaneh

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Hamid Farzaneh received his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Shiraz University in August 2019, and his master's degree in Computer Systems and Architecture from Shahid Beheshti University in November 2021. In August 2022, he joined the chair as a research assistant. He works on high-level compiler frameworks (like MLIR) and optimization for data and computation mapping onto highly heterogeneous systems with mainstream CPUs, FPGAs, SRAM, DRAM, and emerging NVMs and accelerators.

Hamidreza Mehrabian

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Hao Xu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Hasna Bouraoui

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Hitoshi Makino

Job Titles:
  • Student

Hyejung Yang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jamal Rahimi

Job Titles:
  • Visiting PhD Student

Janett Beyer

Job Titles:
  • Lab Technician
Janett is working as laboratory technician, supporting Prof. Feng's group in all technical issues. She is part of the team of the chair for Molecular Functional Materials since February 2016. Her background is in chemical analytics in the semiconductor industry.

Jiahong Bi

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Jianjun Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jiaxi Lu

Job Titles:
  • Overseas Guest Professor, Haixi Institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences ( 2018 )

Jie Du

Job Titles:
  • Joint PhD Student

Jing Wang

Job Titles:
  • Student

John Konitzer


João Paulo Cardoso de Lima

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Julian Robledo Mejía

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Kamil Jastrzembski

Job Titles:
  • Student

Karl Friebel

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Lars Schütze

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Lars has a bachelor and master degrees in computer science from the TU Dresden and had worked as researcher at the Software Technology Group headed by Prof. Uwe Aßmann. Lars will work on his PhD in the context of the RoSI project, which studies role-based software infrastructures for continuous-context-sensitive systems.

Lin Yang

Job Titles:
  • Student
Lin received his master degree in June 2019 from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He joined into Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from Oct. 2019. His current research topic focuses on the "Bottom-up synthesis and characterization of graphene and 2D conjugated polymers".

Linda Luther

Job Titles:
  • Administration Manager

Lukas Sporrer

Job Titles:
  • Student

M.Sc. Andreas Bossert

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

M.Sc. Julia Prodan

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

M.Sc. Leif Sörensen

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Manuela Merkel

Job Titles:
  • Secretary, Primary Contact

Markus Vogt

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Maryam Eslamy

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Max Sponner

Max Sponner is a co-supervised Ph.D. student at Infineon, since 2020. He is working on the topic of Design of Partially Reconfigurable Embedded Deep Learning Inference Accelerators.

Minghao Yu

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Leader
Minghao Yu received his Ph.D. degree in Material Physics and Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University (China) in June 2017. He joined in Prof. Feng's group as a Postdoc from December 2017. His research focuses on the development of nanostructured materials for application in energy storage and conversion.

Mona Sedighi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Moritz Winter

Job Titles:
  • Student

Nesrine Khouzami

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Nilay Naharas

Nilay is an intern from IIT Jammu, India. He joined our chair in June 2023 to work on the topic of 'Adversarially Robust and Efficient Neural Networks'.

Nima Kavand

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Norman A. Rink

Job Titles:
  • Postdoc Researcher

Patrick Schaller

Job Titles:
  • IT Administrator

Paul Jungmann

Paul Jungmann is a Ph.D. student at GlobalFoundries, since 2020. He is working on the topic of Machine Learning for Fault Modelling in Chip Manufacturing.

Paul-Alexander Laval-Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Student

Peng Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Philomène Leonore

Job Titles:
  • Student

Prof. Andreas Fery

Job Titles:
  • Head of Institute of Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics

Prof. Bandara Jayasundera

Job Titles:
  • Research Stay at TUD )

Prof. Dr. Akash Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Processor Design
  • Head of Chair

Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Polymeric Microsystems

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Strategy Director
  • Chief Scientific Officer IPF
The Strategy Director oversaw cfaed's underlying principle of the scientific exploratory and inspirational area.

Prof. Dr. Christel Baier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Computer Science

Prof. Dr. Diana Göhringe

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Adaptive Dynamic Systems

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dietrich R.T. Zahn

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Semiconductor Physics

Prof. Dr. Ehrenfried Zschech

Job Titles:
  • Scientific Director

Prof. Dr. Frank Ellinger

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Circuit Design and Network Theory

Prof. Dr. Franz Baader

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  • Chairman of Automata Theory

Prof. Dr. Gerald Gerlach

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  • Chairman of Solid - State Electronics

Prof. Dr. Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Max Bergmann Center for Biomaterials

Prof. Dr. Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Scientific Computing for Systems Biology
  • Research Group Leader

Prof. Dr. Jeronimo Castrillon

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Compiler Construction -
  • Head of Chair

Prof. Dr. Karl Leo

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Optoelectronics and Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems
  • the Career Development Director Governed and Monitored the Career Development Program and Headed the International Postgraduate Program
The Career Development Director's position was a rotational role. Prof. Karl Leo was elected as successor to Prof. Alexander Eychmüller. He took over in March 2015.

Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen

Job Titles:
  • VISITING PROFESSOR

Prof. Dr. Manfred Helm

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Semiconductor Spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Marino Zerial

Job Titles:
  • Director

Prof. Dr. Markus Krötzsch

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Knowledge - Based Systems

Prof. Dr. Michael Mertig

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Physical Chemistry and KSI Meinsberg

Prof. Dr. Michael Schröter

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Electron Devices and Integrated Circuits

Prof. Dr. Renhao Dong

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Molecular Functional Materials
  • Research Group Leader
Renhao received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Shandong University in 2013. Since 01/2017, he is a research group leader at the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in TUD. His current research interest focuses on synthesis of organic 2D crystals (2D polymers/COFs/MOFs) and their applications in electronics and energy technology.

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Reineke

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Organic Semiconductors -

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Gemming

Job Titles:
  • Professor Theoretische Physik Quantenmechanischer Prozesse Und Systeme ( TQPS )

Prof. Dr. Stefan Diez

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of BioNanoTools ( B CUBE )

Prof. Dr. Stefan E. Schulz

Job Titles:
  • Director

Prof. Dr. Stefan Mannsfeld - COO

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Operations Director
  • Chairman of Organic Devices -

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mikolajick

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Nanoelectronic Materials and NaMLab GGmbH

Prof. Dr. Uwe Aßmann

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Software Technology

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Computer Architecture

Prof. Dr. Xinliang Feng

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Molecular Functional Materials
  • Head of Chair

Prof. Dr. Yana Vaynzof

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Board
  • Chairman of Emerging Electronic Technologies

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arved C. Hübler

Job Titles:
  • Print and Media Technology

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Frank H. P. Fitzek

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Communication Networks

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Gerhard Fettweis

Job Titles:
  • Director

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Karlheinz Bock

Job Titles:
  • Director Electronics Packaging Lab ( IAVT )

Robert Khasanov

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
Robert Khasanov has received his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2012 and 2014 respectively. During the study, he also held positions at Intel where he was working on optimising binary translator system, and then in LLVM compiler project. In 2015 Robert carried out an internship at Scalable Parallel Computing Lab (ETH Zurich) where he was working on optimal data replication in fault tolerant distributed databases. Currently, Robert is a Ph.D. student at the Chair for Compiler Construction. In his studies, he works on language support and optimizations for energy-efficient execution of multiple applications on emerging systems. Key interests include dataflow languages with implicit and explicit parallelism, compiler-runtime interaction, and energy optimizations.

Saba Natelashvili


Sabine Strecker

Job Titles:
  • AM30 Local Secretary
  • Secretary of Prof. Xinliang Feng
Sabine is a certified foreign language correspondent and joined the team of the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in October 2014. She is working as secretary for Prof. Feng and assists the team in all administrative matters.

Sandra Bley


Sebastian Obermann

Job Titles:
  • Student

Shaik Ghouse

Job Titles:
  • Student

Shaokai Jerry Lin

Job Titles:
  • Visiting PhD Student / PhD Student at the University of California, Berkeley

Shiyi Feng

Job Titles:
  • Student

Siddharth Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Sophie Neubert

Job Titles:
  • SFB Secretary

Tatjana Sereda-Neuber

Job Titles:
  • Finance Assistant

Tobias Nickel

Job Titles:
  • Technician ( NMR Device )

Uwe Pretzsch

Job Titles:
  • IT Advisor

Xiaohui Liu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ye Yang

Job Titles:
  • Student

Yuhao Liu

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Zahra Ebrahimi

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
Zahra Ebrahimi along with her co-authors have designed different SISD, SIMD, pipeline, and non-pipelined versions of approximate multipliers and dividers. In case of interest in collaboration and access to the methodology, please contact Zahra. In case of usage of our methodology, please refer to her corresponding paper.

Zhiyong Wang

Job Titles:
  • Research Group Leader

Zsolt Tóvári

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager