Uwe Schroeder has been Deputy Scientific Director at NaMLab in Dresden, Germany, since 2009. His primary research focuses include material properties of ferroelectric hafnium oxide and the integration of the material into future devices. As a project manager, he researched high-k dielectrics and their integration into DRAM capacitors, and it was during this work that the previously unknown ferroelectric properties of doped HfO2-based dielectrics were discovered. He has focused on a detailed understanding of these new material properties and their integration into memory devices ever since.