Dr. Werner Romn

I have more than 20 years of experience in research, technology development and innovation, in leading positions in a multinational environment, among others at LG.Philips, SWARCO, EFKON, ecoplus – the business agency of the province of Lower Austria, Virtual Vehicle Research, Joanneum Research, University of Aarhus/Denmark and TU Graz.

I have a PhD in physics from the University of Vienna. I held a research professorship at the National AMS Research Laboratory in Aarhus/Denmark and am an author and co-author of about 70 publications (most of them peer-reviewed). 

Over the past 20 years, I have initiated and coordinated a plethora of funded R&D projects at national and European level with up to 60 partners from 12 countries from industry and academia. In the course of this, I received the “ECSEL JU Dissemination Award” in 2017 for the two major European projects DEWI and SCOTT. I have also established sustainable technology networks and coordinated strategic national roadmaps. I served as an official UNIDO delegate on the topic of “nanotechnology” in Belarus and as the Austrian delegate in the standardisation working group ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 7 “Sensor Networks”.

In August 2020, I founded the non-profit organisation SYRION in Graz/Austria.