Martin Schell received the Dipl.Phys. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1989 and the Dr.rer.nat. degree from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1993. In 1995, he was Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. From 1996 to 2000, he was Management Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. From 2000 to 2005, he was Product Line Manager, and then Head of Production and Procurement, at Infineon Fiber Optics, Berlin. He is currently Director of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin and Professor for optic and optoelectronic integration with the Technical University of Berlin. He served as a board member of the European Photonics Industry Consortium from 2015 to 2021. He is Chairman of the Competence Network Optical Technologies Berlin/Brandenburg (OptecBB), and Member of the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. His research focuses on Photonic Integrated Circuits for communication, sensing, and quantum applications. https://hhi.fraunhofer.de