Dirk Pfeiffer

Dr. Dirk Pfeiffer is the director of the Microelectronics Research Laboratory (MRL) at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. The MRL is a semiconductor R&D facility with key capabilities including a 200mm wafer scale fabrication line, die and wafer level packaging & assembly, surface mount technology, characterization and other for advanced prototyping and process development of new materials and devices. The key mission of the MRL is to accelerate technologies from early stages of innovation to wafer scale development and manufacturing ("Lab to Fab" prototyping). Its project portfolio include quantum, semiconductor device and materials development,  embedded analog devices for memory and AI applications, IoT and biomedical devices for health care applications, 2.5 and 3D packaging development and cooling and others. Dr. Dirk Pfeiffer has 25 years of experience in semiconductor and material process development as well as building and operating semiconductor fabrication facilities. He is author and coauthor of 80 plus patents, publications as well as several IBM outstanding technology achievement awards and has a PhD in Chemistry.