Biography

Ivica Kolaric, since October 2000, works at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart and is the Co-Director, Fraunhofer Project Center for Electroactive Polymer AIST, Kansai, Japan. After his graduation at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen in the field of mechatronics, he gained his first work experience in an automotive environment before joining Fraunhofer as a research assistant. He has done important pioneering work and opened future technology for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in the field of nano scaled carbon such as CNT and Graphene.

He has developed numerous novel and successful business models for the implementation of nano technology in industrial products and global markets. He opened the Fraunhofer Office for Process Engineering of Functional Materials and Robotics OPER to build up a strategic network on this high technology market. Currently, his focus is on nano enhanced energy storages systems advanced printed technologies for human machine interfaces and material compositions for future the Transportation industry.