The first professor of the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) took up his work in the Cluster of Excellence for Electronics of Technische Universität Dresden (TUD). Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jeronimo Castrillon, who received his official certificate of appointment by TUD-rector Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Müller-Steinhagen in June, holds the newly created cfaed chair for ‘Compiler Construction’. Thus, the 33-year-old computer expert from Colombia fills the first of five designated cfaed professorships. Two more professors will start their research for cfaed in the area of molecular functional materials and organic electronics in the second half of 2014.
Before joining cfaed, Prof. Castrillon was a senior researcher at the chair for ‘Software for Systems on Silicon’ at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University. At RWTH, also a university of excellence, he received his PhD degree (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with honors in 2013. Also with honors, he gained the Electronics Engineering degree from Pontificia Bolivariana University in Colombia in 2004 and the master degree from the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI) of the University of Lugano / Switzerland in 2006. His research interests lie on methodologies, languages, tools, and algorithms for programming complex electronic systems. Prof. Castrillon received numerous awards, including the Swiss Excellence Government Scholarship 2005 and the Intel Doctoral Award 2012.

In November 2012, about 200 scientists started the basic research about new microchip technologies. Since then, 80 PhD students and seven research group leaders have been recruited. Currently, about 300 engineering and natural scientists are working togehter in the nine cfaed research paths. The hiring of two additional professors and three research group leaders is planned. “We want to build up about 15 new research groups in cfaed,” cluster coordinator Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communication Systems at TU Dresden, says. In addition to TUD, Technische Universität Chemnitz and nine other non-university research institutes belong to the eleven participating institutes of the Cluster. cfaed is funded with € 34 million by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 

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