With the new scientific director Prof. Thomas Schroeder taking office in February 2018 and the institute´s Leibniz evaluation in December 2018, the IKZ Institute Concept 2019 was developed – and fully supported by the evaluation committee - to strengthen IKZ´s future mission & strategy on science & technology as well as service & transfer on crystalline materials. To put this strategy in the best possible way in place, IKZ rearranged its management & organization structure on 1st April, 2019.
Dr. Martin Straßburg
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
Prof. Dr. Saskia Fischer
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Physics Humboldt University Berlin
Dr. Björn Maul
Department of Natural, Material and Life Sciences
The Governing Mayor of Berlin
Senate Chancellery VI D
Christoph Schwickart
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Unit 513, Communication and security of digital systems
Prof. Dr. habil. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
EPFL Lausanne, Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials
Dr. Martin M. Frank
IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Prof. Dr. Lena F. Kourkoutis
School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Dr. Georg Schwalb
Siltronic AG
Prof. Dr. Götz Seibold
Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU), Cottbus- Senftenberg
Prof. Dr. Thomas Südmeyer
University of Neuchâtel, Physics Institute
Prof. Dr. Bernd Tillack
IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics /
Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik
Dr. Björn Maul
Berlin Senate Chancellery for Science and Research
Dr. Björn Maul
Berlin Senate Chancellery for Science and Research
Christoph Schwickart
BMBF Department 513 "Communication and Security of Digital Systems"
The four IKZ research programs are provided by the four scientific departments. To promote interdisciplinarity in our research efforts from basic over applied up to pre-industrial developments, the research programs are organized in a 2 x 2 matrix structure. IKZ´s research and development activities thereby follow two innovation pathways, namely innovations in and by crystalline materials.