Rolf Aschenbrenner

CPMT President Rao Tummala made a midterm appointment of Rolf Aschenbrenner to a vacant position on the CPMT Board of Governors as a Member at Large.
 
Rolf Aschenbrenner was born in Buchen, Germany, in 1961. He received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University for Applied Science, Gießen, Germany, in 1986 and the B.S. degree in physics from the University of Gießen, Germany, in 1991.
From 1991 to 1992 he has worked at the University of Gießen in the area of new materials and was engaged in a project for the German Space Lab Mission D2. In 1993, he joined the research center „Technologien der Mikroperipherik" at the Technical University of Berlin, working in the area of electroless metal deposition.
Since March 1994 he has been at the Fraunhofer Institute Reliability and Microintegration Berlin (IZM) where he is head of the department Chip Interconnection Technologies and head of the department Polytronic Systems at the Munich Division. He has authored and co-authored more than 80 articles in journals or proceedings and he holds eight patents and has ten pending patents in the field of microelectronic packaging.
In 1995 he obtained the best paper award from the Surface Mount International Conference (SMI) in San Jose.
Rolf Aschenbrenner is member of the IMAPS and IEEE/CPMT society. He was chair and committee member at different international conferences.