Robert Aigner received his Ph.D. degree from Technical University of Munich in 1996 for research on micromachined chemical sensors. He was a visiting scientist at Berkeley Sensors and Actuators Center BSAC in 1996 where he worked on system design for inertial sensors. After that he joined the MEMS research group at Siemens Corporate Technology in 1997. Since 1999 he is director of a MEMS R&D department at Infineon Technologies. While having a broad experience in Automotive MEMS the more recent activities focus on MEMS for communication technologies and RF-MEMS. As a representative for his company he is member of several German and European committees for Microsystem Technology and was nominated as MEMS-expert for European Commission's research projects. He holds 18 patents and has published more than 50 articles.