Peter Kücher, Director of the Fraunhofer Center Nanoelectronic Technologies in Dresden since May 2005. Prior to this assignment he was President of Infineon Flash and till end of 2002 Managing Director and VP of Infineon SC300, former SEMICONDUCTOR300 - the world's first 300mm line. For his engagement for the introduction of semiconductor manufacturing on 300mm wafers he got the European SEMI award in 2000. Dr Kücher held various positions in technology development with Siemens Corporate Research and managed several European projects within ESPRIT, JESSI and MEDEA. From 1993- 1996 he was the Siemens project manager in a joint research project with IBM and Toshiba in East Fishkill, NY to develop 0,25um technology based on a 256M DRAM . Since 2005 he is honorary professor of the Technical University Dresden.