Dr. Winfried Keiper studied Physics and Biophysics in Aachen and London and received his Ph.D. in Physics from RWTH Aachen in 1983. From 1984 to 2019 he worked as international staff for Robert Bosch GmbH, the leading automotive supplier and maker of a wide range of industrial and personal products.

His assignments included responsibilites as director of various industrial R&D departments and lately as Public Funding Officer at Bosch Corporate Research, looking after acquisition of national, European, and RoW projects with public funding. Technology interests include Advanced Materials – Quantum Devices – Electric Vehicles – Energy Storage – Autonomous & Connected Vehicles – Robotics – medical (lab-on-chip) – AI – Industry4.0 – Circular Economy. Dr. Keiper is consultant for technology-related topics and serves as co – secretary of EUMAT, the European Technology Platform for Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies.