CEM Seminar
Dr. Jan Jacob
“How do IT-Solutions support managing Experiments from Ideas to Measurements to Results”
Scientific research is a continuous process of developing new ideas and theories, inventing and planning the right experiments to prove the theories, managing the resulting data, analyzing it, and creating reports from that data. While computers already support the actual measurements for quite a while by test sequencers and data recorders, most of the planning of experiments as well as large areas of managing the resulting data are still done by hand. There are software packages to conduct specific analysis on specific data sets. However, often a variety of tools has to be employed to create the desired result if analysis get more complex. One of the major issues nowadays is to actually find specific data sets in the huge amount of data produced by highly automated data acquisition systems.
In this talk concepts for IT-solutions will be presented to support the full experiment process:
- defining the requirements of and the parameters explored by an experiment
- over defining the necessary test equipment
- scheduling measurement time at the necessary facilities
- conducting the measurement
- analyzing the measurement data
- relating data to the experiment definition or data from other sources (e.g. growth protocols of wafers, material characterizations, etc.),
- creating reports
- archiving and finding the data
Bio:
Dr. Jan Jacob studied physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany and graduated with his Ph.D. thesis on ‘All-electrical InAs Spin-Filters’ in 2009. He stayed at the University of Hamburg as a postdoc with a young researcher group for 2009 – 2012 and conducted experimental and numerical investigations of spin-dependent transport in semiconductor nanostructures. During that time he also developed various software packages for experiment execution and numeric simulations.
Since 2013 he is a project manager at Werum Software & Systems CIS AG in Lueneburg, Germany where he’s responsible for individual data acquisition, test execution, and supervisory control solutions for industrial and research customers worldwide.