received her diploma in Technical Physics in 1998. She is an expert for sputtering processes, thin-film technology and new materials for large-area applications and worked at last as department manager for Sheet-to-Sheet Technologies & Precision Coating in the Division Plasma Technology at Fraunhofer FEP, Dresden, Germany. She has a Doctor of Engineering in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering from Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany, with research topics focused on pilot scale vacuum coatings on non-flexible and flexible glass, upscaling of processes, development of sputtering processes for high rate deposition on large size substrates, magnetron sputtering, metal and reactive processes, fabrication and development of functional layers and layer stacks, antireflective or antireflective antistatic coatings, transparent conductors, infrared blockers, heat-resistant layers, mirror coatings, other optical coatings, refinement of thin films by ultra-fast thermal annealing, e.g. flash lamp annealing (FLA).

Manuela started up an R&D platform for pilot scale research services on ultra-thin flexible glass for sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll processing at Fraunhofer FEP.

In 2021 she moved to the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Micro Integration IZM and is now responsible for the site management of the All Silicon System Integration Centre (IZM-ASSID) in Dresden, Germany.

Manuela is Emerging Technologies TAC Chair and Past Program Chair of the SVC TechCon, board member of the International Conference on Coatings on Glass and Plastics ICCG, and elected expert of the national network Plasma Germany.