Benjamin Spitschan received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from Technische Universität Braunschweig with a focus on communications technology and signal processing. He interned at BSkyB, London, and Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA, where he did research on consumer electronics and medical image processing, respectively. Benjamin Spitschan has joined the Institut für Informationsverarbeitung in July 2011 and is working on data storage and retrieval using micro-structured mechanical component surfaces.