Professor Oliver G. Schmidt is the Scientific Director of the Research Center for Materials, Architectures and Integration of Nanomembranes (MAIN) and holds the Chair of Material Systems for Nanoelectronics at the Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. He is Adjunct Professor of Nanophysics at Dresden University of Technology, Germany and Honorable Professor at both Fudan University and Changzhou University. He is an elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering and has received several international prizes and awards: Among them the Otto-Hahn Medal from the Max-Planck-Society in 2000, the Philip-Morris Research Award in 2002, the Carus-Medal from the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 2005, the International Dresden Barkhausen Award in 2013, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2018, and an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2019. He is a pioneer in micromachined microrobots, their biomedical applications and their potential for creating artificial life. He achieved several Guinness World Records (e.g. smallest man-made jet engine and smallest microelectronic robot) and has made major scientific contributions to small scale energy storage devices, flexible electronics and integrated microsystems for biomedical applications. He has been an ISI highly cited researcher in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and has authored and co-authored > 900 papers with a citation index > 67.000 and an H-index of 133. https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/etit/nano/OliverGSchmidt.php