”Having elected to study electrical engineering and information technology at Ilmenau TU, I was in touch with IMMS at a very early stage because of Professor Sommer and the course on Principles of Analogue Circuit Design.Joining the Industrial Electronics and Measurement (IEM) division of IMMS first for the obligatory basic placement and later as a part-time paid employee gave me a close-up view of the life of an engineer. Open, subject-based discussions helped me not only to solve any problems with my work but also to apply to practice the theory I was learning.

When I wrote my dissertation for the BSc at IMMS, I really enjoyed designing a demonstrator for high temperature circuits in the HoTSens project and to make and test that demonstrator, in which the circuits still work at temperatures as high as 300°C. My tasks did not only involve electrical engineering but also the resolution of issues in heat, mechanics and computer science. This highly varied and yet very specific project reinforced even at that stage the interest I had in keeping to this line of study.

I have stayed true to IMMS right up to today and after completing my MSc dissertation on ’Evaluation of RFID system parameters and investigation of RFID sensor circuits in practice’ I am still here as a paid IEM researcher focusing on interesting projects that are hot off the press. In one of these projects, I am currently integrating AI algorithms into measuring procedures to increase their efficiency. One of the reasons why working at IMMS gives me so much pleasure is the fact that I have chance to put my own ideas into practice.“