Founder
You have a result and a hunch it could be a company. The path out of the lab is shorter than it was — and someone here has walked it. At LMU we now do IP transfer in under three months.
Let’s talk →Build with me
Let’s accelerate opportunities.
The goal: a new Mittelstand that comes out of science — companies that hold high-tech niches, create jobs, and pay taxes here. No one builds that alone. Whether you are a founder, an investor or from the press — there is a way in.
Get in touch
Whoever you are, there is a way in.
Pick what sounds like you — or just write me directly below. I read everything myself.
Investor or partner
Investor, foundation supporter, university or policymaker — if you want to back research spin-outs, or shorten the path from lab to company, let’s build it together.
Get in touch →Press
Interview requests, speaking enquiries, quotes and photos — everything you need is in the press area.
Press & media →Send a message
Tell me what you’re building.
Whoever you are — researcher, investor, journalist or none of the above — just write. I read everything myself.
Why I am asking
Someone once gave me a chance. Now it is my turn.
Two physicists, no capital, no network. A business angel believed in us anyway. NanoTemper became a company that created around 250 jobs and has paid 44.7 million euros in taxes in Germany.
That is the model I want to see repeated — not once, but many times. No one builds a new Mittelstand alone. That is why I am the first donor to the LMU Entrepreneurship Foundation: I do not want to ask anyone for something I am not prepared to do myself.
LMU Presidents’ Dinner, 21 May 2026
Opportunities do not appear by themselves. But if we create them together, companies emerge that can change the world.
If none of the three fits, write anyway. I would rather read one message too many than miss the one that mattered.