Tobias Funk received his B.Eng. degree from the University of Applied Science Esslingen, Germany, in 2011, the M.Sc. degree from Reutlingen University, Germany, in 2013 and the Ph.D. degree (Summa Cum Laude) from Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, in 2019. Since April 2019, he is with the research and development department at ARBURG GmbH + Co KG. His current research interests include integrated power management, fully integrated wide-bandwidth current sensing and discrete high-voltage driving circuits. He invented three patents.
Bernhard Wicht has 20+ years of experience in analog and power management IC design. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from TU Dresden, Germany, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree (Summa Cum Laude) from TU Munich, Germany, in 2002. Between 2003 and 2010, he was with Texas Instruments, Germany, responsible for the design of automotive power management ICs. He was a professor at Reutlingen University and he is currently heading the Chair for Mixed-Signal IC Design at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Dr. Wicht was co-recipient of the 2015 ESSCIRC Best Paper Award and of the 2019 First Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. In 2018, he received the faculty award for excellent teaching at his university. He invented seventeen patents with several more pending. He is currently a SSCS Distinguished Lecturer and a member of the ISSCC Technical Program Committee.