Dr. Mirko Scholz is Principal Engineer ESD Development at Infineon Technologies AG in Neubiberg/Munich, Germany. Before joining Infineon he was almost 15 years with imec in Leuven/Belgium where worked in different roles from ESD Lab Engineer to Senior Researcher ESD and finally as Program Manager Technology Transfers.

He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (VUB) in 2013. In 2007 he joined the device testing working groups of the ESDA standards committee where he co-chairs working group 5.6. Since 2017 he has chaired the Advanced Topics Committee. In 2018 he was the management chair of the IEW in Belgium. In 2019 he joined the Steering Committee of the EOS/ESD Symposium and IoT workshop.