Werner Steinhoegl

Dr. Werner Steinhögl is Head of Sector in the Microelectronics and Photonics Industry unit of the European Commission in Brussels. 

He has been serving in the Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) directorate general since 2005 in different positions. He has managed R&I support programs spanning from emerging quantum computing technologies over nano- technologies to safety-critical computing and cyber-physical systems. Since 2018 he has been in charge of the photonics public private partnership for research and contributed to the EU Chips Act. 

Before joining the EC he had worked for 6 years in the semiconductor industry at Infineon and Siemens in Munich and collaborated with R&D teams in the US. He holds a PhD in solid state physics acquired at the Max-Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Göttingen, Germany, in 1998.