CV Ghaleb Natour PERSONAL DATA Birth date: 07.03.1960 Marital status: married, 2 children Citizenship: German and Israeli WORK EXPIERIENCE AND EDUCATION Since 2010 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Director of the Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics (ZEA)Engineering and Technology (ZEA-1) Since 2010 RWTH Aachen University Lecturer at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Lecture: Systematic Engineering under Integration of Complex Joining Technology Challenges, Engineering in Research 1999-2010 1999-2011 2007-2010 2000-2010 2003-2006 2003-2010 Research Laboratories Royal Philips Electronics, Aachen Director of the department Engineering & Technology Director Venture Relations, Philips Electronics Corporate Technologies IT Manager Philips Research Germany Chairman of the Philips Research IT Management Council Chairman of Research IT Architecture Board 1997-2000 FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences Lecture: Lighting and Illumination Technologies 1992 -1999 Research Laboratories Royal Philips Electronics, Aachen Research Scientist, work in and leading of R&D projects in areas of Philips Electronics innovation products and processes 1987-1990 German foundation for Development (DSE), Mannheim Teaching of vocational trainers from developing countries in principles of the German dual vocational education, medical systems and computer science 1990-1992 Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg Research Scientist, work in R&D projects and space instrumentation in cooperation with ESA and NASA. Development of the space instrument CIDA, cometary and interstellar dust analyzer(TOF SIMS), on board of the Stardust mission. 1980–1989 1987-1989 University of Heidelberg PhD Thesis “A new expansion setup for measurement of second virial coefficients of gases and gas mixtures at room temperature” Institute for Physical Chemistry, Dr. rer. nat. (Nov. 1989) 1980-1987 Studies in Physics and physical Chemistry, Diplom Physiker (Mai 1987). Diploma thesis “Measurement of second virial coefficients of gases and gas mixtures at low temperatures temperature” AWARDS 2006 1987-1989 Philips Germany/Austria/Switzerland award for social commitment PhD Minerva Fellowship of the Max-Planck Society and Weizmann Institute, Israel