Mr. Stanitzki is head of the industrial sensors business unit within Fraunhofer IMS. After graduating from the Ruhr-University Bochum in 2008 he worked as an IC design engineer for radiation hard communication ICs. In 2011 he joined Fraunhofer IMS in Duisburg and was head of the mixed-signal ASIC design group until he became responsible for the industrial business unit and strategic planning in 2021. He is actively advocating the use of Open Hardware and Open Source in sensors development and became a RISC-V ambassador in 2019.