Dr. Matthias Trempa is a senior scientist at Fraunhofer IISB, a world wide recognized German research institute for power electronic systems and devices. Dr. Trempa studied material science at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and joined Fraunhofer IISB in 2008. During his research activities in the field of Silicon Crystal Growth he got his PhD in 2013. Since a couple of years, Dr. Trempa is doing applied research together with Nippon Kornmeyer Carbon Group (NKCG) on high temperature protection coatings, especially for semiconductor applications along the SiC power device value chain.