Michael Sinapius received his doctorate at RWTH Aachen University and has been a scientist at the German Aerospace Center since 1989. From 2003 to 2011 he was professor for adaptive lightweight design at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. Since 2011 he is professor for adaptronic systems at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and holds the chair of the Institute for Adaptronics and Function Integration.