Tamara Bechtold

Tamara Bechtold is currently an Interim Professor for microsystems simulation at the University of Freiburg.

She obtained her MSc in microelecronics and microsystems engineering from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2000, and her PhD in microsystem simulation from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2005. Between 2006 and 2010,

Dr. Bechtold worked as an experienced researcher for

Philips Research Laboratories and NXP Seminconductors in

Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The objective of her research

work was to enhance the standard IC design flow through model order reduction

and optimization modules. From 2010 to 2011, Dr.

Bechtold was with CADFEM GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany, supporting industry

and academia in application of advancedmodeling and simulation tools for systemlevel

simulation and electromagnetic device simulation.

Dr. Bechtold is author or co-author of over 40 technical publications in the area

of microsystem simulation, the lead author of the textbook "Fast Simulations of

of Electro-Thermal MEMS: Efficient Dynamic Compact Models", published

by Springer and the main editor of the textbook "System-Level Modeling of MEMS”, by Wiley-VHC book series on Advanced Micro and Nanosystems.

Her research interests cover applications of advanced mathematical methods of

model order reduction and topology optimization to engineering problems and a multi

physic modelling on the system- and device-level.