Markus Rochowicz, PhD Fraunhofer IPA

Since 2008, Markus works as a Groupmanager for Cleanliness Technology in the Department Ultraclean Technology and Micromanufacturing at the Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart with a team of twelve scienticts on topics of clean production for a wide range of customer branches. Before he has worked as a scientist in cleanroom production. Since 2000 he is responsible for setting up the topic of Technical Cleanliness in laboratory analysis, industrial training courses and consulting. The valid standards of Technical Cleanliness VDA 19 Part 1 and 2 as well as the ISO 16232 have been compiled under his direction. Current topics of his work are the control of filmic/chemical residues on surfaces as well as the Cleanliness of Medical Products in the Manufacturing Process which is described now in the guidline VDI 2083 Part 21.

Markus Rochowicz studied Pysics at the University of Stuttgart and received a PhD in engineering technology.