Maciej Haras, PhD Eng., was born in Gdańsk, Poland in 1984. He obtained M. Eng in power electronics at Gdańsk University of Technology and at Polytechnique de Grenoble (2008), PhD in nanotechnology at Université Lille-1 (2016) for investigation of silicon-based thermoelectric generators, awarded with the best PhD prize from Université Catholique de Lille.
Joined STMicroelectronics R&D (2011) working on energy harvesting. In 2014 he joined IEMN and investigated CMOS compatible thermoelectric generators and mechanical properties of silicon nanowire . Currently he is the assistant professor at Institute of High Pressure Physics (UNIPRESS), Polish Academy of Sciences and at Warsaw University of Technology.