Dr. Schmitt has over 35 years of exeprience in the bio-medical industry. He had been Chief Scientist at Cross Match Technologies, Inc., since 2002, where he developed the physical foundations of Sonavation’s MEMs-based fingerprint technology. Prior, Dr. Schmitt worked for Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest and most prestigious organization for applied research. He managed several research organizations at Fraunhofer for more than 18 years, where he was the Institute Deputy Director, Fraunhofer IBMT (Intstitute for Biomedical Engineering). Dr. Schmitt is also an Adjunct Professor of Radiology at the University of Michigan since 2004.