Silke Kirchner received her Ph.D. in Physics with a focus on Nanophotonics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, Germany. She became a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Rice University in Houston, Texas and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California, where she was part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and devoted her research to Nanophotonics for a Closed Carbon Cycle. As of 2018 Silke is a Product Manager for Digital Solutions in the Automotive Industry. She has taken active part in several automotive standardization forums, such as the International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM) and the German Flat Panel Forum (DFF) to help define OEM specifications for the quality control of display solutions in the automotive interior.