About us
Institut für Mikroelektronik Stuttgart
Civil law foundation
Member of the Innovationsallianz Baden-Württemberg
Executive Director of the Institute: Prof. Dr. Niels Quack
Foundation: 1983 by the state of Baden-Württemberg
Number of employees: +100
Operating budget: 18,3 million euros
Management
Prof. Dr.
Niels Quack
Director and Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS) and full professor at Faculty 5 (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) at the University of Stuttgart.
Curriculum vitae
Niels Quack received a Master of Science degree from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005, and a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) in 2010.
From 2011 to 2015, he was postdoctoral and visiting researcher at the Integrated Photonics Laboratory and Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC), University of California Berkeley. From 2014 to 2015, he was Senior MEMS Engineer at Sercalo Microtechnology, Neuchâtel. From 2015 to 2021 he held a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship at EPFL, and from 2022 he was Associate Professor of Micro and Nano Systems at the University of Sydney in Australia. Since 2024, he had been Academic Director of the Research and Prototype Foundry at the University of Sydney. Since April 2025 he is Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney.
Prof. Quack’s current research field in a wider sense includes micro and nano systems engineering, and in particular the exploration of micro- and nanofabrication techniques and new materials, as well as the integration of mechanics and photonics at the micro- and nanoscale. These new and innovative types of micro and nano systems are used, for example, in fiber-optic communication systems, in data centers and high-performance computers, in quantum sensor technology and information processing, or in space communication. Prof. Quack is the author of more than 150 journal articles and conference papers and has filed 7 patent applications.
Prof. Quack is Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and Senior Editor of the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOM), and he is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) and was General Chair of the IEEE OMN 2018 and the Latsis Symposium 2019 on Diamond Photonics. He was or is a member of various technical program committees of conferences, including ECOC, IEEE MEMS, CLEO, SPIE OPTO, Transducers and MNE.
Prof. Quack has received the Sydney Research Accelerator Prize 2022 and the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA) Supervisor of the Year 2023 Award.
Prof. Quack is a SPIE Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, Optica Senior Member and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
Prof. Dr.
Jens Anders
Director and Vice Chairmen of the Board of the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart and Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Intelligent Sensors at the University of Stuttgart.
Curriculum vitae
Jens Anders received the master’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2005, the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Leibniz University of Hannover in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in 2011.
From 2013 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor of biomedical integrated sensors with the Institute of Microelectronics at the University of Ulm. Dr. Anders is currently a Full Professor and the Director of the Institute of Smart Sensors at the University of Stuttgart. Since October 2022, he is also the Co-Director of the Institute for Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS).
He has authored or co-authored several books and book chapters as well as more than 150 journal and conference papers.
His current research interests include multiphysics problems and circuit design for sensing applications, including materials science as well as biomedical and quantum sensing.
He is a fellow of the “Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology” (IQST), a fellow of the “Stuttgart Research Center of Photonic Engineering” (SCoPE), and a member of the Executive Board of the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Center for Quantum Photonics (QPhoton).
Dr. Anders served/is serving as a Program Committee Member of ISSCC, ESSCIRC, ESSDERC and the IEEE Sensors conference. He received the 2003 President’s Award of the Leibniz University of Hannover, the 2006 Best Thesis Award of the VDE Chapter Hannover, the E.ON Future Award 2007, the VDE ITG ISS Study Award 2008, the VDE ITG Outstanding Publication Award 2012, the ICBME 2008 Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Sensors 2017 Best Live Demo Award, and one of the 2021 Sony Europe Research Awards.