Dr. Matthias Hopfner

• Lead and develop the Quality Management System (QMS). • KPI management and drive continuous process improvement. • customer quality management. • Disciplinary and operational leadership of QM/QC teams. • Auditmanagement (internal, certification, customers) according to IATF/VDA/ISO 9001&14001. • Document management and business process management.

• Accountable for the QMS across Semiconductor, Metal Systems, and Displays segments. • Main customer QM contact. • Lead of QM, QA, QC, and Product Safety/Stewardship teams. • Auditmanagement (customers/suppliers/internal/certification) - ISO 9001/IATF. • Product launches (APQP/PPAP). • Negotiation of quality agreements. • Non-conformance and deviation management (8D/5Why/Ishikawa). • Change management according to customer requirements. • Risk management, SQC/SPC. • Conducting QM Trainings.

• Customer acquisition, care, and development; turnover and margin responsibility for leading EU semiconductor customers. • Customer contract negotiations • Market analysis and definition of customer strategies. • Interface to marketing/product management, supply chain, production, QM, R&D and analytics.

• Supplier qualification, supplier evaluation, supplier audits and supplier improvement according to strategic requirements in regards to quality, costs and supply security. • Lead of global material expert team (Taiwan, China, Singapore, US, EU). • Developement of material roadmaps and coordination of efficiency benchmarks. • Definition of material specifications and establishment of supplier strategy. • Material deviation management.

• Central technical interface to chemical suppliers. • Negotiation of material specifications and technical purchase agreements. • Change management and material qualifications. • OPEX projects reducing technical complexity • Technical lead of material qualification projects.

Pharmaceutical Sales Training

Management Training Project: EU-Elastomere Stock Reduction

Heterogeneous Semiconductor Photocatalysis Ph.D. Exam, predicate : “magna cum laude” Assistent Professor for Chemical Engineers

Semester abroad at the University Louis Pasteur in F-Strasbourg in the Laboratoire d’Electrochimie, Topic: Electrochemical Properties of CdS Semiconductors

6-weeks training at Roussel-Uclaf in F-Neuville, Incoming Quality & Communications

Master Thesis in Inorganic Chemistry, Topic: Semiconductor Catalyzed Synthesis, Elective Studies: Toxicology, Lecturer and tutor for chemical engineering students