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Burkhard Habbe is Vice President Business Development at Micropelt, a thin film thermoelectric chip maker located in Freiburg, Germany. After completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering at Munich’s Technical University and working as automation engineer during his early career Burkhard has held various senior positions in sales, marketing and business development in technology driven industries including automation, microelectronics and machine vision. Burkhard is now responsible for taking Micropelt’s thin film thermoelectrics to target markets which, besides energy harvesting for low power electronics and wireless sensors, include photonics micro-cooling, rapid thermal cycling for genomics, and a range of thermal sensing applications.