Invited Speaker

Jan received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Materials Science from RWTH Aachen in 2013 and ETH Zurich in 2017 before joining MIT to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2017. His research was focused on nanostructure and energy-level engineering of organic semiconductor devices before completing his PhD in May 2024. Experiencing inefficiencies in nanofabrication process development not only in academia but also in industrial R&D as a display engineering intern at Apple, he set out to create the FabuBlox platform with his team of co-founders in 2023. Jan has served as CEO at FabuBlox since June 2024, guiding the platform’s growth to over 1,500 users globally in just over two years. Thanks to this rapid and wide-spread adoption, FabuBlox has been able to secure $2M in pre-seed venture capital backing under his lead, now scaling the company beyond its beta testing stage in 2025.