Sarah Busef

Sarah Busef is a Materials Scientist and Researcher affiliated with the Fraunhofer Society, specifically the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Berlin, Germany, with prospective collaboration with Technische Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on hybrid bonding process development for ultra-fine pitch CMOS sensor-ROC interconnects in pixel detectors, contributing to Work Package 5 of the STREAM Marie Skłodowska Curie (MSC) Innovative Training Network (ITN).

• Education: M.Sc. in Materials Science (University of Manchester, 2016), B.A.Sc. in Materials Engineering (University of Toronto, 2015)

Her research interests span materials science, electrochemistry, hybrid microelectronics packaging, and surface characterization techniques. She has been recognized for her dissertation on plasma electrolytic oxidation coatings with the A.B. Platt award and Jotun Scholarship.

Scientific Awards

• A.B. Platt award for excellence in tribology research
• Jotun Scholarship for Excellence in Coatings Technology

Sarah's work within the STREAM ITN involves secondments at the University of Bonn (testing prototype assemblies, 2018) and CiS Research Institute (collaborative packaging research, 2019), enhancing industry-compatible wafer-level system integration processes.