Thorsten Bayer works as a Development Engineer at TDK Electronics in Austria. He studied Materials Science from 2004 – 2009 at TU Darmstadt and completed his dissertation Impact of injected charge carriers on Ba0,6Sr0,4TiO3 thin films: Electric and dielectric characterization and simulation of the charge transport in 2014 at TU Darmstadt’s Surface Science Division. From 2014 – 2017, he worked as a Postdoc at the Pennsylvania State University on The Role of Interfaces in Performance, Degradation, and Breakdown of NonLinear Dielectrics Under Extreme Conditions (AFOSR funded project).