Jörg is responsible for general management at Sensor Coating Systems. He is a co-founder of SCS and co-inventor of the sensing technology. Jörg was instrumental in raising finances for the development of the technology from private investors, industry and governmental organisations and led the company to profitability. Jörg has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a Masters degree in Physics (German ‘Diplom-Physiker’). He was responsible for delivering various programmes to the Office of Naval Research, the Centre of Defence Enterprise, EU Framework programmes, several UK co-funded projects for Innovate UK and the Carbon Trust and a multi-lateral industry project most of them with international participation. On his initiative SCS started delivering projects to the German automotive industry. Some of the projects received prestigious awards such as the John P Davies Award of the ASME Turbo Expo, the Innovation Award of the Wall Street Journal Europe for new materials, the British Engineering Excellence Award and the Emerging Technologies Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Jörg published over 75 scientific articles, conference papers and patents mostly on luminescence sensing.