Dr. Ernst-Friedrich Markus Henke

Markus is CEO of PowerON and based in Germany. He studied biomimetics and dielectric elastomer technology as a Marie Curie fellow in Iain Anderson’s Biomimetics Lab at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. During his stay in Auckland Markus met Katie and Ross and started to explore the potential commercial applications together with Iain. After his return to Germany Markus joined the PowerON founding team in 2019. Markus holds Dipl.-Ing. Degree and a PhD from the TU Dresden in Mechatronics and Electrical Engineering.