Editorial team PLUS
The editorial team is responsible for publishing the trade journal PLUS and researches interesting topics in the industry every month, prepares them and makes them available to you. If you have any specialist articles you would like to publish, please contact the relevant section editor or simply our editor-in-chief.
Advisory Board of PLUS
The members of the scientific advisory board support
and accompany the work of the journal.
Dr Sandra Engle, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, took over responsibility for the EMINT Productronic department at VDMA at the beginning of 2020. With 83 member companies, Productronic is the largest of the four EMINT departments in terms of membership. The others are Micro Technologies (the second largest with around 60 member companies), Battery Production and Photovoltaic Production Equipment. Dr Engle brought many years of international experience in the field of printed circuit board and assembly manufacturing to her position at the VDMA.
Dr Engle succeeded Thilo Brückner, Managing Director of the VDMA Electronics, Micro and New Energy Production Technologies (EMINT) trade association, on the PLUS editorial advisory board in April 2022.
Golta Khatibi holds a doctorate in materials science and heads the Mechanical Properties research group at the Institute for Chemical Technologies and Analytics (CTA) at TU Wien, as well as the Christian Doppler Laboratory ‘Lifetime and Reliability of Multi-Material Electronics,’ where she collaborates with leading commercial enterprises. Her focus is on investigating the time- and temperature-dependent properties of materials under static and dynamic stresses. Her research group develops special testing and characterisation methods for miniaturised parts and components, with a particular focus on investigating the fatigue properties and long-term reliability of electronic components.
Paul Wild studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Until the end of 2014, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Microstructural Engineering at the Hahn-Schickard Society in Stuttgart, before joining Rehm Thermal Systems GmbH as a development engineer. He has been head of the company's research and development department since February 2019.
His work focuses on the development and refinement of thermal systems, technological cooperation with institutes and companies, and the organisation of seminars and training courses.
In 2018, he completed his doctorate while working full-time on the topic of reliability and life cycle modelling of solder joints.
