Torsten Wipiejewski
Chief Operations Officer

Dr. Torsten Wipiejewski, an industry veteran, is a member of the ECTC Executive Committee and is the Opto-Committee chair of ESTC. He served as program chair of the 2005 POF Conference, and has been a committee member of SPIE Photonics West and EPTC for many years. Torsten also chaired the Optoelectronics Chip-Level Roadmap development for the U.S.-based National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) in 2004.

A senior member of IEEE LEOS and CPMT, Torsten has authored or co-authored more than 120 publications and over 30 patents. He was honored with Agility’s “Patent Award” in 2001 and 2002, Infineon’s “Inventor of the Year Award” in 1999, the “Project Innovations Award” of the Siemens Semiconductor Group (now Infineon) in 1999, and the “Best Ph.D. Thesis Award” in 1994.

Torsten received a Ph.D. summa cum laude for his work on low threshold, tunable VCSELs from the University of Ulm, Germany, and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at the University of Ulm.

Torsten was most recently vice president and R&D director of Material and Packaging Technologies Group at ASTRI in Hong Kong where he led the development of ultra low-cost photonic components for information transmission and smart optical sensors.