EP3 PIC Manufacturing and PIC Packaging

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Dr. Eddy Schipper works as an Investment Manager and advisor HighTech for Netherlands Enterprise Agency, an Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. He is involved in supporting R&D in the field of High-Tech Systems and Materials (finance, contacts). He is the national contact for Photonics/Opto-Electronics. Other focus areas are sensing/ mechatronic, semicon and nanotechnology. 

He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Twente a Msc Physics from the Univerisity of Twente and a PdEng in optics. He is always looking into the possibilities for international research collaboration.

Dr. Lin received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1997 and 2002, respectively. His thesis work focused on design, modeling, and fabrication of micromachined-tunable optoelectronic devices. Since 2009, he has been with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Tainan, Taiwan, where he holds a position as a Professor. The major research efforts in his group are in design and fabrication of novel semiconductor optoelectronic devices, including LEDs, solar cells, and lasers. Since 2016, he is also jointly appointed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), where he participates and leads several key projects in the micro LEDs, 3DIC, and silicon photonics. Before joining NCTU, he worked for different start-ups in the United States. After graduating from Stanford in 2002, he joined E2O Communications Inc., Calabasas, CA, USA, as a Senior Optoelectronic Engineer. His main research interests then were in optically and electrically pumped long-wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. In 2004, he joined Santur Corporation, Fremont, CA, where he initially worked as a member of technical staff then became Manager of Laser Chip Engineering later. He had worked on various projects such as monolithic multiwavelength DFB Laser arrays for data and telecommunications applications, yield and reliability analysis of DFB Laser arrays, etc. From 2015 to 2017, he was the recipient of the Young Investigator Research Grant by Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan. He has more than 200 journal and conference publications and is a Fellow of the Optical Society (formerly the Optical Society of America) and a senior member of the IEEE Photonic Society.

Herbert Chen is the Vice President of Product Management of Browave since 2019. Herbert joins to Browavemore than 20 years of experience in VP of RD engineering, Production engineering and management. Prior to joining Browave, Herbert was the project leader, fiber optics communication device and applications of MOEA projects in OES, ITRI (1996-1998). Herbert holds a Ph.Din electrical engineering from University of Chiao-Tung (1996), Hsinchu, major was guided-wave optics, fiber optics communication, and MEMS; minor was hologram optics in pick-up head applications.

Johan joined SMART Photonics as CEO in 2019, after having been on the Advisory Board for about 3 years. 

Before SMART, Johan co-founded Liquavista in 2006 and is co-inventor of electrowetting displays. At Liquavista, he has had a broad set of roles, ranging from CEO, to CTO and Program Management. Together with his team, he raised four rounds of venture capital for Liquavista and sold the company twice, in both cases to Fortune 500 companies (Samsung Electronics and Amazon.com). 

Johan has received several prices for electrowetting display technology, is the author of more than 75 papers in internationally refereed journals, various book chapters and holds more than 40 patents. Johan received his PhD in Solid State Physics from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands in 1997. After a Post-doc at the University of Maryland, he moved to the Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1999, where he worked on electrowetting technology and its applications. 

He currently serves on the Advisory/Supervisory board of 3 other scale-up companies.

 Arne Leinse Ph.D. [M] (Chief Executive Officer) is active in integrated optics for more than 15 years. He received a PhD degree from the University of Twente in the integrated Optical Microsystems group in 2005. Hereafter he joined LioniX BV where he was involved in the invention and development of the TriPleX™ platform from the beginning. He has been involved from the original concept until the exploitation and (co)authored over 100 articles in the last years. He has been active as Vice-President of LioniX BV in the last years and since the establishment of LioniX-international in 2016 active in the role of Chief Commercial Officer. Since January 2020 Arne is active in the role of CEO, leading the Management Team 

 Jeroen Duis received his bachelor’s degree from the Technical University of Rijswijk in 2001. After his study he worked 16 years within TE Connectivity. Within the Fiber Optic Business Unit and corporate technology team he held several positions in engineering, research, technology scouting and management. During this time, he gained a broad experience in: laser processing of glass fibers, WDM multiplexing, low loss optical interconnects, next generation photonic chip packaging for applications in mobile phones, automotive and high speed computing applications. In March 2017 he accepted a position at SMART Photonics, a scale up in Indium Phosphide wafer manufacturing where he was responsible for the business development. November 2018, Jeroen accepted a position as Chief Commercial Officer at PHIX photonics assembly where he is responsible for the commercial activities and the strategic direction for the hybrid packaging.  He is the author and co-author of several publications and holds 15 patent applications in the field of optical interconnection technology. 

 Anna Nikiel is Vice President of Business Development in Technobis. Before this position, She was responsible for Business Development and Partnership in PhotonDelata - Ecosystem to accelerate integrated photonics solution. After 10+ years in Academia (Applied Physics) she moved carrier in the healthcare industry. She started her industrial carrier in Royal Philips Electronics. Then in Accenture Digital, she led teams in the creation of next-generation technologies and innovative products that contribute to society’s grand challenges.