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Contributors Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany. His degree from the University of Karlsruhe was in Mechanical Engineering. He has been the leader of the Nanoreplication Group at the Institute since 2005 and the leader of the replication division since 2008. Email: matthias.worgull@imt.fzk.de Jie Zhao Ms Jie Zhao obtained her first degree in Mechatronics Engineering at Xian Shiyou University, China, in 2005, and an MSc in Mechatronics and Automation Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, in 2006. In 2007 she started research in micro-manufacturing as a Research Assistant. Her work has been a mixture of mechatronics, machine/tool development, experimentation for micro-manufacturing, requirement engineering, as well as project management. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in Micro-Manufacturing. Email: j.zhao@strath.ac.uk

conferences on micro-/nano-manufacturing and precision engineering. Email: guto@mek.dtu.dk

Eckart Uhlmann Professor Eckart Uhlmann worked as a Scientific Engineer and Chief Engineer in IWF (1986 1994), and assumed various management responsibilities at Hermes Schleifmittel GmbH & Co., Hamburg (19941997), including responsibility as the vice president of the company (1995). Professor Uhlmann became the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute IPK and Director of the Chair of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Technology at the IWF of the TU Berlin in the Production Technology Center Berlin (1997). Email: Eckart.Uhlmann@ipk.fraunhofer.de Matthias Worgull Dr Matthias Worgull currently works at the Institute for Microstructure Technology at