Pruessner finished his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in August 2005

Marcel Pruessner finished his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in August 2005. Marcel's thesis was the first demonstration of "InP-based Optical Waveguide MEMS" that has proved InP as a suitable micro-opto-mechanical material for a wide variety of waveguide-based optical microsystems ranging from communications to sensing applications. His dissertation in fact has established the basic foundation for monolithic integration of passive and active optical components with MEMS actuators on a single chip using InP material. Marcel starts his new position as a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC in September 2005.