Thorsten Lill is a Vice President for Emerging Etch Technologies and Systems at Lam Research, the market leader in etching tools for the semiconductor industry. He has been working in the field of plasma, radical, thermal, ion beam and plasma etching since 1995. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany and was a post doc at the Argonne National Laboratory. He has a track record in developing commercially successful etching equipment for the semiconductor industry. He published 85 articles and 66 patents in the field. Thorsten Lill holds a certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Stanford University.