Panel and Discussion



Thursday, 13. October 2016 | 16:15 Uhr

Speaker

Afternoon Speakers

Reporting

Lukas Schrittwieser of ETH Zurich, representing the young scientists, the two speakers, Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth and Dr. Ulrich Claessen, as well as Professor Gerd Folkers, who led the discussion, participated in the roundtable session.

Commenting on Matthias Kaiserswerth’s presentation on Big Data, Lukas Schrittwieser stated: “We lack scientific discourse in this area. We don’t know how to deal with the question of freedom and security of data.”
In addition to the subject of security, the discussion revolved around the notion of innovation. “The United States has a very different way of thinking about innovation,” said Matthias Kaiserswerth.

Find out from the video what this thinking model looks like and why Ulrich Claessen made a small plea for applied research.

Discussion participants

Please click on their name below to see the speakers CV:

CV Matthias Kaiserswerth
CV Ulrich Claessen
CV Ronald Jäger

Lukas Schrittwieser

Lukas Schrittwieser was born in 1988 in Austria, where he graduated from the Matura at a technical school with focus on IT and network technology. After an internship in semiconductor development at Infineon Technologies in Munich, he studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich.

During his studies he was active in various administrative and executive functions of the Department Association of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering students. He completed a Praktium in the development department for medium voltage drives at ABB USA and graduated in 2014 as a Master of Science at ETH Zurich.

He is currently working on the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory at ETH Zurich on his dissertation in the field of power electronics. His research deals with the supply of telecommunications systems and data centers, the battery charging for electric vehicles or the power industrial low-voltage DC systems applications with high-efficiency rectifier systems.

Since 2010 Lukas Schrittwieser is Subsidized by the Swiss Study Foundation.

 

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