Oliver G. Schmidt is the Director of the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at the Leibniz IFW Dresden, Germany, and holds a Chair for Material Systems for Nanoelectronics at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. His professional activities bridge across several research fields, ranging from nanomaterials and nanoelectronics to microfluidics, microrobotics and  biomedical applications. He has received numerous awards: the Otto-Hahn Medal from the Max-Planck-Society in 2000, the Philip-Morris Research Award in 2002 and the Carus-Medal from the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 2005. In 2010, he was awarded the Guinness World Record for the smallest man-made jet engine and in 2013 the International Dresden Barkhausen Award for his work on “Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes”. In 2018 he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize 2018 of the German Research Foundation. The Leibniz-Prize is the most important research award in Germany and recognizes his outstanding work on the investigation, manufacturing and innovative application of functional nanostructures. Most recently this year, he was awarded an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). ERC Advanced Grants belong to the highest distinctions scientists working in Europe can receive.

Abstract: Nanomembranes: From e-skin technologies to reconfigurable microrobotics