The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s Executive Board has appointed IZM-scientist Rolf Aschenbrenner deputy head of Fraunhofer IZM. Together with Martin Schneider-Ramelow Aschenbrenner heads the department System Integration and Interconnection Technologies at the institute.

As a member of the IEEE CPMT Society Board of Governors Rolf Aschenbrenner has worked as a European representative on the Conference Advisory Board Committee, and has played an active role in the globalization of IEEE CPMT in terms of membership and chapter development. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and served as IEEE CPMT Vice President, Technical and IEEE CPMT Vice President, Conferences. In 2010 he became IEEE CPMT President.

Rolf Aschenbrenner has authored and co-authored more than 80 articles for journals or proceedings in the area of electronic packaging and he holds numerous patents in the field of microelectronic packaging. In 1995 he obtained the best paper award at the Surface Mount International Conference (SMI) in San Jose and in 2005 he received the “iNEMI International Recognition Award”.