Norbert Herfurth

Dr.-Ing. Norbert Herfurth is a research group leader, programme coordinator and semiconductor technologist with more than ten years of experience at the interface of microelectronics research, collaborative R&D programmes, open-source chip design, failure analysis and semiconductor strategy. He currently leads the Diagnostics, Sensors & Emerging Modules group at IHP – Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, where he is responsible for building and managing a newly established interdisciplinary unit with activities in diagnostics, sensors, photonic and emerging module technologies. His work combines technical depth in semiconductor devices and failure analysis with strategic programme leadership. Before taking on his current group-leader role, he initiated, structured and coordinated several publicly funded collaborative R&D projects in the field of open-source microelectronics, open PDKs and trusted electronics. He has contribut