Sascha Schwarz

Co-leading the strategic development of the TUM Venture Labs with a focus on mastering the start-up to scale-up transition: defining our core customer, improving operations within the company, and ensuring quality over quantity across 12 labs. Shaping the ecosystem's lab-to-market journey and mobilizing the infrastructure for our venturing teams to build something that scales beyond any single lab or program.

Built one of Europe's first DeepTech start-up hubs for Additive & Advanced Manufacturing. Started from scratch and turned it into a fully operational venture lab: defined the vision, built the infrastructure, assembled the team, and established the partner network that connects start-ups, corporates, and research institutions. Scaled to 200+ supported founders and talents — guiding them from first idea to market entry across disciplines and industries.

The 0→1 phase of what became the TUM Venture Lab AM — conceptualized the operational model, built the initial infrastructure, and laid the foundation for everything that followed.

Consulting role advising corporate clients on engineering and innovation strategy, and empowering them to implement it. Broadened perspective on how large organizations make decisions about technology and implement the required changes in an effective manner.

Chair of Robotics Science and Systems Intelligence Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence - MIRMI (former MSRM) Prof. Dr. Ing. Sami Haddadin Built and led an interdisciplinary research group at the intersection of AI, robotics, and biofabrication: synthetic Biorobotics. Established new additive manufacturing infrastructure and research fields within MIRMI that didn't exist before. First real leadership experience: building a high-performance team in a complex, resource-constrained environmen

Department of Mechanical Engineering | Chair of Applied Mechanics Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Rixen Application of laser-Doppler vibrometry for the mechanical characterization of biological materials. Doctoral research on the contactless mechanical characterization of biological materials and engineered tissues using laser-Doppler vibrometry. Working at the intersection of mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering. Built the experimental foundation that later shaped my approach to biofabrication and adv

Co-built the bioprinting and biofabrication capabilities at CANTER from the ground up — establishing the experimental infrastructure, methodologies, and research direction for this domain. Hands-on research at the intersection of advanced manufacturing and tissue engineering, and where my deep conviction around biofabrication was built: developing the concept of collaborative & cell-driven biofabrication.

Co-founded a hardware startup from idea to physical product. Full end-to-end ownership across strategy, product development, and operations. Built and iterated prototypes using rapid manufacturing, navigated early customer discovery, and learned first-hand what it actually takes to turn an idea into something real, especially when hardware is involved. The idea won the SCE Award in 2014.

Development and evaluation of a modular BioPrinter system for producing complex three-dimensional structures, by means of cell - laden hydrogels.