Dr. Steffen Schulze
Sr. Director of Marketing
Mentor Graphics


Steffen Schulze's current position is Sr. Director of Marketing for Semiconductor Solutions at Mentor Graphics’ Design to Silicon Division. His group is managing the product development activities for all semiconductor manufacturing software tools in the Calibre product line. He is holding a Masters degree in Material Science from the Institute for fine chemical technology M.W. Lomonossov, Moscow, Russia, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Bremen, Germany and a MBA from the University of Oregon in Eugene, USA.

He started his professional carrier in mask manufacturing in the mask house at the Center of Microelectronics in Dresden, Germany focused on technology development. He led the ramp up of a new manufacturing facility for ebeam lithography and proceeded to take ownership of the customer facing data preparation group. Later he worked for 4 years in development projects for micro-mechanical systems at the Institute for Microsensors, actuators and –systems in Bremen, Germany, where he ran the lithography laboratory and was in charge of the mask design activities. In 1997 Steffen joined Infineon Technologies at the DRAM Alliance with IBM in East Fishkill, USA. His work focused on mask data preparation and advanced resolution enhancement techniques. In 2002 Steffen joined Mentor Graphics leading the launch of the Calibre MDP product line. His current responsibility is leading product development efforts of advanced tools in modeling, mask synthesis, resolution enhancement and mask data preparation for semiconductor manufacturing customers. He has over 50 publications and holds 9 patents.