Michael Salter holds a B.S. and M.S. Engineering degree from the University of New Hampshire, USA, and over 30 years of experience with technical and management roles in research and development of electronic components and systems. He began his career in industry designing electric motors and power electronic drive systems in Silicon Valley, USA. He moved to the telecommunications field in 1989 with Ericsson in Sweden, working in analog/RF simulation and design for mobile telecommunications infrastructure. He continued his career at Motorola in the US where he held R&D and management roles in advanced electronic components and system technology for CDMA and GSM mobile phones. In 2002, he joined Acreo, a research institute in Sweden for advanced microelectronics and optics research that later merged with RISE Research Institutes. Now at RISE for more than 20 years, Michael has held several technical and management positions in research and development of new nanoelectronics technologies, such as semiconductors, sensors, ASIC and electronic design, high frequency and high power electronics. He led the establishment of ProNano in Lund, Sweden, an open innovation research and pilot facility for nanoelectronics. He currently is working on strategic initiatives at RISE within the power electronics and semiconductor areas. Michael is a senior member of IEEE and is active with networks at the European semiconductor arena such as Chips JU, Eureka and Horizon Europe.