About team leader Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt
Oliver G. Schmidt is Professor for Material Systems for Nanoelectronics at Chemnitz University of Technology since 2007 and was Director of the Institute for Integrative Nanoscience at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden from 2007-2021. He initiated and is the designated Scientific Director of the Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) at Chemnitz University of Technology. Schmidt is a pioneer in the field of microrobotics and micromotors. He and his research team's work in nanoscience is positioned at the interface of physics, chemistry, materials science, electronics and microsystems engineering. Schmidt has demonstrated the application potential of his scientific findings in microrobotics, photonics, sensor technology, medicine, and energy storage in numerous research papers. In 2010, he and his then-colleagues built the smallest man-made jet propulsion system and in 2020 the smallest microelectronic robot. In 2018, he was honored with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize – the most important research funding award in Germany – for his outstanding work on the research, production and innovative application of functional nanostructures. Schmidt is a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences as well as the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

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