Dr.-Ing. Joachim Becker

Joachim Becker is a tenured research assistant at the Department of Microelectronics in Ulm.

From 1995 to 2001 he studied physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and received a degree from the chair of Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Meier at the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics. Within the group of "electronic vision(s)", he developed an FPGA-based testsystem for mixed-signal ASICs based on a PCI-Card.

After an engagement at Oakham School, Britain, Mr. Becker came to the Department for Microsystems Technology (IMTEK) in 2002 and ran the "F-MoLL projekt" for microsystem technology until end of 2003. At the chair of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Yiannos Manoli, Mr. Becker was working towards his Ph.D. in the field of reconfigurable analog hardware and initiator of the "hexagonal FPAA" project.

In 2008, he joined the Department for Microelectronics at the University of Ulm as tenured research assistant. Within the research focus on reconfigurable hardware, Mr. Becker works on novel architectures for analog/mixed-signal reconfigurable circuits, including full custom integrated and board design.

Mr. Becker received the "Media-Award of the University of Freiburg in 2005": 1. Price to the Chair of Microelectronics for the scientific direction of the project "spicy VOLTsim", and the best poster award of poster session 1 at 2007 International "Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education". He was awarded winner of the PhD category of the "Cadence European electronic design contest" for students 2008. He received the "Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis" for promotion of young scientists 2010 for his outstanding Ph.D. thesis.

Mr. Becker is Senior Member of the IEEE.