Skip to main content
SEMICON West 2024 Main banner
Back

    Stefan Heinemann

    VP Sales NA
    PHIX, MT, United States

    Stefan recently took the position of General Manager of PHIX, Inc. the North American subsidiary of PHIX B.V. located in the Netherlands. PHIX is a pure play packaging foundry offering production and development of integrated photonic platforms. He joined from Aurora, the autonomous trucking company, where he led the team for opto-mechanical engineering of the First Light Lidar product and the packaging efforts for next generation Lidar on the Chip for coherent 4D detection up to 400 m. Before that, he managed the development of a high power diode laser product line and the technology development team at TRUMPF Photonics, which is part of the TRUMPF group, a worldwide operating provider of laser machine tools. Prior to his appointment at TRUMPF, he served as the director at Fraunhofer USA, Center for Laser Technology, where he developed and commercialized novel production technologies with light serving academia, federal agencies and industry. He started his professional carrier at JENOPTIK in Jena, Germany.
    He co-founded four companies in the fields of lasers and renewable energy holding positions as CEO and CTO. He initiated the alliance for Clean Transportation, a private public partnership of the University of Michigan, Fraunhofer and industry.

    He earned a diploma in Physics from the Technical University of Munich and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He holds 68 patents and has more than 150 published works

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    Presentation(s):