trinamiX GmbH is based in Ludwigshafen, Germany and was founded in 2015 as a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE, the world’s largest chemical company. As a startup operating within the organization of BASF, we are not just operationally independent, we also have unique and unprecedented access to the expertise and experience of the entire BASF Group.
With our patented technologies, we have been chartered to enable humans and machines to capture and understand the hidden and invisible world all around us for improved decision-making and security.
Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Ingmar Bruder.
Background
In 2011, scientists from BASF made an unexpected discovery while characterizing under-development opto-electronic materials. The team traced a measurement anomaly back to a unique, totally unexpected behavior from one of the organic solar cell formulations.
The discovery, at first considered to be a flaw, instead turned out to be a revolutionary, eye-opening feature that enabled instantaneous 3D depth measurement through a monocular system.
In the years that followed, an interdisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, material scientists, and engineers formed trinamiX and reaped the benefits of this discovery by using the effect for distance measurement products as well as 3D sensing applications.
During the development of our 3D sensor systems, the trinamiX team was searching for a unique, wafer-thin infrared sensor with specific characteristics to complement the solution. However, a product with these specifications was not available on the market and was in fact deemed nearly impossible to create – so being BASF, we invented one.
That’s when trinamiX started the development and production of our Lead salt-based infrared sensors with a new thin film encapsulation that dramatically enhanced our visualization product line and solutions with a whole new feature set.
Today, trinamiX is disrupting a wide range of markets with both our 3D sensing and IR-based technologies – all thanks to an accidental discovery that yielded profound new opportunities to help us understand the hidden world of data all around us.
Team
With a team of more than 150 experts across different fields, we are developing and selling the world’s most advanced 3D and infrared sensing technologies. We are headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where also our production and development takes place. To be close to our customers and partners, we have sales and business development teams as well as field engineers in the USA, China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Besides building on our own competencies, we work with the world’s best companies and collaborate closely with our customers to solve their individual sensing challenges.
Founder, Chairman and Managing Director
Dr. Ingmar Bruder
Dr. Ingmar Bruder, Managing Director of trinamiX GmbH
Dr. Ingmar Bruder
Physicist Dr. Ingmar Bruder is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of trinamiX GmbH. He started his career as researcher at BASF SE in 2007. During that time he made the discovery that built the technological basis for our 3D sensor systems. Ingmar received his Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in cooperation with Max Planck Institute for solid state research and BASF SE.
Alexander Maaghoul, Managing Director
Alexander Maaghoul is an entrepreneur, executive, and currently Managing Director of trinamiX GmbH. After finishing his studies at the Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, he has gained competences in various fields of work including research & development, product development, new business development, and business strategy. He also successfully launched, executed, and sold a mid-cap company. Since 2019 he has been contributing his extensive expertise to trinamiX.
Dr. Wilfried Hermes, Director IR Sensing
Wilfried Hermes studied chemistry and received his Ph. D. at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He completed his studies as a post-doctoral student at Lund and Stockholm University in Sweden in 2011. Afterwards, he started working for the BASF SE in the division New Technologies as a lab-team leader. When the trinamiX GmbH was founded in 2015, he decided to be part of this development. Wilfried Hermes occupied multiple positions within trinamiX during the last 5 years, such as researcher, quality manager, and sales manager. Today, he is heading the department IR Sensing.
