Khaled Karrai
Scientific Director, attocube systems
About the Speaker
Khaled Karrai is the co-founder of attocube systems. Karrai acted as the CTO of attocube systems until 2013. As Scientific Director of attocube he is today focusing on the strategic future of the company. In 1984 he received both an engineering degree from the Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Toulouse/France and a master’s degree in condensed matter physics from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse. He received his PhD in Physics in 1987 from the Joseph Fourier University Grenoble where he conducted his research in the French-German high-magnetic field laboratory. He moved then to the USA, where he was a postdoc and then faculty in the physics and astronomy department of the University of Maryland conducting research on quantum confinement in semiconductors and superconductors. In 1993, received a prestigious von Humboldt research grant to setup the first nearfield optical-microscopy laboratory in Germany. In 1995, he was appointed full professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a focus on semiconductor nano devices and nano optics. In 1999 was co-founder of the Center of nano science CeNS. In 2001, Karrai and his then-PhD student, Dirk Haft, founded attocube systems, as a spin-off from the Center for NanoScience at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Both were winner of the Bavarian Innovation Award 2006 and winner of the 2008 German Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurs (Deutscher Gründerpreis 2008). In 2010 he was awarded the Rudolf Diesel price of the Technical University of Munich and became member of the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is also member of the advisory board of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST). Since 2010 he has mentored and assisted researchers initiating their startups in the field of bioscience and in quantum engineering.
