Monika Balk is currently an Industry Solution Experience Senior Manager with Dassault Systèmes Simulia. During her work for Dassault Systèmes Simulia she supported leading high-tech customers worldwide. She has over 15 years of experience in the simulation software industry after she received her Ph.D. at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 2005 with an accelerator physics related topic. Before, she graduated in 2000 at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany, in high frequency engineering.