Jens Lienig is the director of the Institute of Electromechanical and Electronic Design at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in the field of computer-aided physical design of multi-chip modules and was employed as a researcher at University of Virginia, Charlottesville and Concordia University, Montreal. Afterwards he worked as project manager at Tanner Research, Inc. and Robert Bosch GmbH. Susann Rothe is a scientific assistant at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. She is working towards her Ph.D. in the field of migration modeling and verification with physics-based models. Her research interests include technology characterization and temperature effects for interconnect reliability. Matthias Thiele is a scientific assistant at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in the field of electromigration avoidance in physical design. Currently he works on the reliability of electronic, mechatronic and photonic systems.