Christoph Heer is Senior Director at Infineon Technologies, responsible for the global development of standard components for large scale integrated digital circuits. Responsibilities include the definition of the technical roadmaps for future advanced CMOS technologies like 45nm, 32nm and below as well as the development of a productive design environment for the actual manufacturing technologies from 180nm down to 65nm. He is responsible for a global organisation with teams in Singapore, San Jose (California), Sophia Antipolis (France), Bangalore (India) and Munich (Germany). He received a Diploma degree in solid state electronics from Aachen University of Technology in 1990 and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ulm University in 1995. Dr. Heer's research interests range from hardware architectures for dedicated signal and multimedia processing to circuit design for sub-100nm CMOS technologies. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and contributed to two books.
Dr. Heer has been member of the technical program committee and organizing committee of several technical conferences, including the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design and Test Europe (DATE) and the IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC). He has been teaching on asynchronous circuits at various universities in Germany, Spain and Australia. His lecture on "Asynchronous Design Methods" has been part of EPF Lausanne's summer courses since ten years.