Before becoming a co-founder of Lightricity, Matthias Kauer has been a Research Manager in the Energy & Environment Group at Sharp Laboratories of Europe. He has a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge and over 15 years of industrial experience in optoelectronic device R&D with companies in the UK (Sharp Laboratories) and the US (Bell Labs). He is a senior member of the IEEE, and has more than 40 journal publications and patent applications.