Harald Gossner is Senior Principal Engineer at Intel. He received his diploma degree in physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich in 1990 and his PhD in electrical engineering from Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich in 1995. For 15 years he has worked on the development of ESD protection concepts with Siemens and Infineon Technologies. In 2011 he joined Intel leading the system ESD robustness development for Intel products.

Harald Gossner has authored and co-authored 150 technical papers and two books in the fields of ESD and device physics, where he also holds 120 patents. He is president emeritus of the EOS/ESD Association, Rome, NY, and IEEE Fellow. As member of the industry advisory boards of the Bavarian Government and Fraunhofer institutes he consults the RnD ecosystem and participates in the expert commission on AI of the German Economic Council. He presents in his role as project lead of the project Semiconductor-X, coordinating the development of a resilient supply chain of semiconductors for Europe.