Alexander Kloes is Professor at THM University of Applied Sciences in Giessen, Germany. He currently serves as Dean of the Department for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and heads the Device Modeling Research Group at the Competence Center for Nanotechnology and Photonics. In 1996, he received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He is IEEE Senior Member, holds 15 patents and co-authored more than 200 research papers. His research interests focus on compact modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices, particularly nanoscale MOS devices and organic thin-film transistors for flexible electronics, and simulation approaches for the design of neuromorphic computing architectures.