Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Quay talks about his new tasks as Professor for Energy-Efficient Radio-Frequency Electronics at INATECH at the University of Freiburg.
As a professor, I am especially looking forward to interacting with the students. It is great to work with young and motivated people who are interested in new topics. I hope to motivate them to do new things. Things they haven’t learnt yet and also things we can develop together.
It’s in the name: energy efficiency of high frequency systems. That actually concerns the whole digital technology which accompanies us every day: in smartphones, computers and tablets. At the same time it’s about the the required materials, which we want to provide sustainably. We need to learn that electronic waste is a resource that will stay with us for the next 10 to 20 years.
It generates an incredible amount of exchange. In this context 1 + 1 is definitely more than 2. We have state-of-the-art infrastructure at Fraunhofer IAF: clean rooms and laboratories that the university might not be able to afford. At the university we have great people from all over the world, which makes me especially happy. I’m looking forward bringing it all together. We can do great projects and also new things that we might not otherwise do at Fraunhofer.
The big advantage is that we can bring completely new and current topics into teaching. We can formulate master theses and doctorates. On the other hand, we can develop topics for the Fraunhofer Institute that go beyond the 3-year horizon. And we can do completely new things, e.g. the model system electronic waste that can help to form completely new disciplines between economics and engineering sciences.
I think of people I didn't really like at university, but who I still remember today. These are people who thought very far ahead and were able to motivate us and teach us things that we might not have liked at the time. There are one or two where I would say: They have done great pedagogy and I still benefit from it today. If I can do something like that, I’ll be happy.
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With the aim of advancing the development of innovative technologies in the field of efficient electronics at the University of Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Quay has been appointed to professorship for energy-efficient radio-frequency electronics at the Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering (INATECH). The professorship is made possible by the Fritz Hüttinger Foundation and the support of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF.
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF