Mario Baum received a combined MBE (Master of Business and Engineering) at Chemnitz University of Technology in 2001 and started working as an application engineer for a company called GEMAC mbH Chemnitz in the field of MEMS. In 2002, he joined the team of Prof. Gessner at Fraunhofer IZM later ENAS as a scientist with both research and marketing tasks, where he got a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and micro technologies in 2015. Currently his work is focused on MEMS packaging, microsystems as well as medical and biomedical packaging topics. Since 2014 he has been working as a team leader for the integration technologies research team, and today he is the deputy department head of the department System Packaging at Fraunhofer ENAS. In 2016 he was appointed as business unit manager for the application oriented business unit “Technologies and Systems for Smart Health”. Meanwhile, he authored and co-authored more than 120 publications and 8 patents.