Prof. Michael Kasper is CEO of Fraunhofer Singapore Research Ltd. and Director of the Fraunhofer-NTU Research Centre FSR@NTU since April 2022. His primary mission is to support the development of Fraunhofer in Singapore and to intertwine the activities carried out in conjunction with Germany's Fraunhofer Institutes and its governmental and idustrial partners.
Michael has been working for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft since 2005 with more than 20-year professional experience in applied research and translational science. He joined Fraunhofer Singapore as a research fellow and has served as Department Director for Cyber and Information Security since January 2018.
He supports governmental, academic, and industrial initiatives on an operational and strategical level with his expertise.
Additional Selected Engagements:
- Director and Principle Investigator for the QUASAR-CREATE programme, heading activities with FSR@NTU as NRF CREATE Hosting Insitution,
- Associate Professor, Collenge of Computer and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
- Co-PI at Continental/Aumovio NTU Corporate Lab for NTU CCDS,
- Co-PI at NRF CREATE partner prograamme under SHARE (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), SAS-C, Singapore Aquaculture Solution Centre (SAS-C),
- Co-coordinator National Quantum-Safe Network (NQSN) at the Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) of the National University of Singapore (NUS),
- Task Force Co-Chair “Quantum Communication Networks” for IMDA, Singapore. Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Committee (TSAC)
- Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer at GLOBIS MBA University, Japan and Singapore, Technovation program
