Contributors Rasmus Solmer Eriksen Mr Rasmus Eriksen is a trained technician and worked with industrial production machines for

several years. He received an MSc in 2005 in Electrical Engineering at DTU, Denmark, and then worked for one year at IPU as engineer consultant in the division of technology development. In 2006 Rasmus joined the group of Micro-/NanoManufacturing at DTU where he is working towards his PhD. His research is focused on tool design for bulk forming of micro-components and was part of the research team designing a fully functional prototype machine for micro-bulk forming with the MASMICRO project. Email: rser@mek.dtu.dk Bertrand Fillon Dr Bertrand Fillon is the CTO of CEA/LITEN for new energy technologies, organic, electronic and nano-materials, France, and the scientific president of the French Polymer Cluster Plastipolis. He has been the initiator of the polymer platform involving the different CEA research teams and Swiss laboratories CSEM. Between 1990 and 2003, he worked with Pechiney Packaging as a coordinator of their Global Packaging R&D activities and the leader of the Pechiney polymer expert group. Email: bertrand.fillon@cea.fr Gonzalo G. Fuentes Dr Gonzalo G. Fuentes got his PhD in Material Science and Thin Films from the University Autonoma of Madrid, and researched in heteronanotubes and macro-molecular systems in Germany. Since 2003 he has been responsible for the international projects at the Center of Advanced Surface Engineering (with AIN), Spain. He participated in five EU funded research projects and coordinated several national and regional projects. He has published 45 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals. Email: gfuentes@ain.es Asta Gegeckaite Dr Asta Gegeckaite is a Project Manager at Novo Nordisk. She has professional experience in

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handling and assembly of micro-products, including testing, development and automation of assembly processes. She obtained a PhD within the program of Construction, Production, Civil Engineering and Transport and has a Master of Science Diploma in Materials Science (Polymeric Materials), a Civil Engineering Diploma within Qualification of Work Safety (similar to EHS) and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering. Email: agek@novonordisk.com Arnold Gillner Dr Arnold Gillner studied Physics at the University of Darmstadt and obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the RWTH Aachen in 1994. Since 1985 he has worked as a scientist at the Fraunhofer-Institut for Laser Technology (ILT). Starting in 1992 he developed the Department for Micro-Technology at the ILT, which has since become a leading department. Together with more than 20 scientists he is developing industrial laser processes for micro-joining and packaging, micro- and nano-structuring, polymer applications and life science applications. Email: arnold.gillner@ilt.fraunhofer.de Hans Nrgaard Hansen Dr Hans Nrgaard Hansen, Professor of MicroManufacturing, Technical University of Denmark, is heading the research group on Micro-/NanoManufacturing as well as the Manufacturing Engineering Section of the department. His research is focused on industrial production of products and components in metals, polymers and ceramics with critical dimensions in the micrometer range (product and material development, development of processes, process chains and production systems for micro-mechanical systems). Email: hnha@mek.dtu.dk Colin Harrison Dr Colin Harrison, Senior Research Fellow, graduated in Engineering Science from the University of Aberdeen in 1984 having won the F.J. McGrigor prize for engineering; he then worked in the oil industry, before joining the University of Dundee working on discrete event simulation and computer