About us
Our complementary team combines more than three decades of experience in high-resolution 3D printing, fluidics, polymer chemistry, materials science, design, and technology company creation and growth.
As a spin-off from TU Dresden, our team is working together to realize our vision of microscale multi-material 3D printing.
Dr. Robert Kirchner
Co-Founder & CEO
Robert develops multi-material 3D printing since 2018. He has an engineering degree from Technische Universität Dresden and has 10+ years of experience in 3D micro-nano-fabrication. Robert drives the vision, the strategic development, and supports the system design.
Jörg Knorr
Co-Founder & CCO
Jörg holds a degree in economics, has long-term business experience in different positions and various areas of industries, is experienced in technology transfer, spin-offs, and the growth of companies. Jörg oversees finances and mainly coordinates and drives business development.
Josua Zscheile
Co-Founder & CTO Software
Josua holds a degree in Computer Science and has experience in sensor integration, real-time systems and software optimization. Apart from that, he is interested in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. He is mainly responsible for our software and its integration.
Dr. Ye Yu
Material Engineer
Ye is an experienced researcher with a wide background in material science, nanofabrication technologies, and nano-optics/plasmonics. She now supports the team with material development.
Man Ho Wong
Mechanical Design Engineer
Man Ho (Marcus) holds a degree in mechanical engineering. He has work experience in the semiconductor industry as well as at university. He likes to design mechanical parts and make things work, with considerations of how usable can it be to general users. He is mainly responsible for the mechanical design of the system.
Markus Peschtrich
Marketing, Media and Design
Markus holds a degree in economics. He is currently a Master's student at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences studying Intermedia & Marketing. Before joining us, he worked at various tech startups and created media for them. His interests are media design and climbing.
Tanya Saxena
Engineer Fluidic Systems
Tanya is a Master student at TU Dresden, studying Organic and Molecular Electronics. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering. Before joining us, she worked in a semiconductor industry to gain insight. She is mainly responsible for parameterization, testing and optimization of the material exchange system.
Advisory Board and Network
We have a renowned board of advisors from industry and academia. We are supported by the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), the Institute of Solid State Electronics at TUD, the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden of TUD, and dresden|exists as our local consulting network at TUD.
Prof. Dr. Gerald Gerlach
Prof. Gerlach is the director of the Institute of Solid State Electronics at TU Dresden. His expertise comprises sensors and sensor systems, semiconductor technology, functional thin films, as well as complex heterogeneous microsystems. He did hold various university management positions.
Dr. Arne Schleunitz
Arne Schleunitz is since 2016 Co-CEO and CTO at micro resist technology GmbH. He studied electrical engineering and his scientific focus is advanced micro- and nano-structure fabrication and respective materials.
Dr. Helmut Schift
Helmut Schift is Head of the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Group at the Paul Scherer Institute. He studied electrical engineering and his specialization are micro-optics, 3D-lithography, and polymer replication down to the nanoscale.