About the person
Short vita
Prof. Karagounis studied communications engineering at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. Parallel to his first professional activities in the IT and medical technology sector, the Cologne native completed a supplementary degree in electrical engineering at the University of Hagen. As part of his doctorate, he supported the development of a readout chip for the pixel detector at the ATLAS experiment, which is installed at the world's largest accelerator, the Large Hardron Collider in Geneva/Switzerland. After completing his doctorate, Prof. Karagounis worked for the Infineon subsidiary EPOS GmbH & Co KG in Duisburg as an analog/mixed-signal designer. There, the engineer developed integrated digital voltage regulators for the supply of microcontrollers with automotive applications. Prof. Karagounis then devoted himself to the development of phase-locked loop circuits, such as those used in smartphones with navigation functionality, as a radio frequency circuit designer at Intel Mobile Communications GmbH in Duisburg. In 2013, Prof. Karagounis was appointed to a basic professorship for electrical engineering at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. Prof. Karagounis has been teaching electronics at Fachhochschule Dortmund since 2016.
Research
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Research & Development
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Designed microchips
Publications
Conference paper
- Open publicationH. Wöhrle, M. De Lucas Alvarez, F. Schlenke, A. Walsemann, M. Karagounis, and F. Kirchner, “Surrogate Model based Co-Optimization of Deep Neural Network Hardware Accelerators,” in 2021 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2021, pp. 40–45.
- Open publicationP. Valerio, M. Barbero, D. Fougeron, F. Gensolen, S. Godiot, M. Menouni, P. Pangaud, A. Rozanov, A. Wang, M. Bomben, G. Calderini, F. Crescioli, J.-F. Genat, O. Le Dortz, G. Marchiori, D. Dzahini, F. E. Rarbi, R. Gaglione, L. Gonella, T. Hemperek, F. Huegging, M. Karagounis, T. Kishishita, H. Krueger, P. Rymaszewski, N. Wermes, F. Ciciriello, F. Corsi, F. Licciulli, C. Marzocca, G. De Robertis, F. Loddo, C. Tamma, A. Andreazza, V. Liberali, S. Shojaii, A. Stabile, M. Bagatin, D. Bisello, S. Mattiazzo, L. Ding, S. Gerardin, P. Giubilato, A. Neviani, A. Paccagnella, D. Vogrig, J. Wyss, N. Bacchetta, F. De Canio, L. Gaioni, B. Nodari, M. Manghisoni, V. Re, G. Traversi, D. Comotti, L. Ratti, C. Vacchi, R. Beccherle, R. Bellazzini, G. Magazzu, M. Minuti, F. Morsani, F. Palla, L. Fanucci, A. Rizzi, S. Saponara, K. Androsov, G. M. Bilei, M. Menichelli, E. Conti, S. Marconi, D. Passeri, P. Placidi, G. Della Casa, N. Demaria, G. Mazza, A. Rivetti, M. D. da Rocha Rolo, E. Monteil, L. Pacher, D. Gajanana, V. Gromov, N. Hessey, R. Kluit, V. Zivkovic, M. Havranek, Z. Janoska, M. Marcisovsky, G. Neue, V. Kafka, P. Sicho, V. Vrba, I. Vila, M. A. Aguirre, F. Muñoz, F. R. Palomo, D. Abbaneo, J. Christiansen, D. Dannheim, D. Dobos, L. Linssen, H. Pernegger, N. Alipour Tehrani, S. Bell, M. L. Prydderch, S. Thomas, D. C. Christian, G. Deptuch, F. Fahim, J. Hoff, R. Lipton, T. Liu, T. Zimmerman, M. Garcia-Sciveres, D. Gnani, A. Mekkaoui, I. Gorelov, M. Hoeferkamp, S. Seidel, K. Toms, J. N. De Witt, and A. Grillo, “65nm technology for HEP: status et perspective,” in Proceedings of The 23rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors, 2014, pp. 43–49.
Journal article
- Open publicationM. Baselga, J.-H. Arling, N. Davis, J. Dingfelder, I. M. Gregor, M. Hauser, F. Hügging, K. Jakobs, M. Karagounis, R. Koppenhöfer, K. Kröninger, F. Lex, U. Parzefall, B. Sari, S. Spannagel, D. Sperlich, J. Weingarten, and I. Zatocilova, “TCAD simulation of stitching for passive CMOS strip detectors,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 20, no. 01, p. C01027, 2025.
- Open publicationG. Rizzo, D. Auguste, M. Babeluk, M. Barbero, P. Barrillon, J. Baudot, T. Bergauer, F. Bernlochner, G. Bertolone, C. Bespin, S. Bettarini, A. Bevan, M. Bona, J. Bonis, F. Bosi, R. Boudagga, P. Breugnon, Y. Buch, G. Casarosa, L. Corona, J. Dingfelder, A. Dorokhov, G. Dujany, C. Finck, F. Forti, A. Frey, D. Fougeron, A. Gabrielli, L. Gaioni, S. Giroletti, K. Hara, T. Higuchi, A. Himmi, D. Howgill, C. Irmler, D. Jeans, A. B. Kaliyar, M. Karagounis, T. Kishishita, H. Krüger, A. Kumar, C. Lacasta, C. Marinas, M. Massa, L. Massaccesi, J. Mazorra de Cos, M. Minuti, A. Moggi, S. Mondal, F. Morel, K. R. Nakamura, Y. Okazaki, Y. Onuki, P. Pangaud, Y. Peinaud, H. Pham, B. Pilsl, L. Ratti, V. Re, E. Riceputi, I. Ripp-Baudot, L. Schall, C. Schwanda, B. Schwenker, M. Schwickardi, R. Sefri, J. Serrano, P. Stavroulakis, G. Traversi, I. Valin, V. Vobbilisetti, M. Vogt, S. Wang, M. Winter, and D. Xu, “The DMAPS upgrade of the Belle II Vertex Detector,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 1072, p. 170164, 2025 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900224010908
- Open publicationJ. Kampkötter, M. Karagounis, and R. Kokozinski, “A high frequency radiation hardened DC/DC-converter with low volume air core inductor,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 19, pp. C01052–C01052, 2024.
- Open publicationA. Walsemann, M. Karagounis, A. Stanitzki, and D. Tutsch, “Fault tolerance evaluation study of a RISC-V microprocessor for HEP applications,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 19, pp. C02012–C02012, 2024.
- Open publicationF. Schneider, M. Karagounis, and B. Choubey, “Energy and Bandwidth Efficient Sparse Programmable Dataflow Accelerator,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 4092–4105, 2024.
- Open publicationJ. Kampkötter, M. Karagounis, and A. Grabmaier, “Step-Down Converter With Stacked Core Transistors for the Innermost Layers of High-Luminosity High-Energy Physics Experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 2056–2066, 2024.
- Open publicationM. Babeluk, D. Auguste, M. Barbero, P. Barrillon, J. Baudot, T. Bergauer, F. Bernlochner, G. Bertolone, C. Bespin, S. Bettarini, A. Bevan, M. Bona, J. Bonis, F. Bosi, R. Boudagga, P. Breugnon, Y. Buch, G. Casarosa, L. Corona, J. Dingfelder, A. Dorokhov, G. Dujany, C. Finck, F. Forti, A. Frey, D. Fougeron, A. Gabrielli, L. Gaioni, S. Giroletti, K. Hara, T. Higuchi, A. Himmi, D. Howgill, C. Irmler, D. Jeans, A. B. Kaliyar, M. Karagounis, T. Kishishita, H. Krüger, A. Kumar, C. Lacasta, C. Marinas, M. Massa, L. Massaccesi, J. Mazorra de Cos, M. Minuti, A. Moggi, S. Mondal, F. Morel, K. R. Nakamura, Y. Okazaki, Y. Onuki, P. Pangaud, Y. Peinaud, H. Pham, B. Pilsl, L. Ratti, V. Re, E. Riceputi, I. Ripp-Baudot, G. Rizzo, L. Schall, C. Schwanda, B. Schwenker, M. Schwickardi, R. Sefri, J. Serrano, P. Stavroulakis, G. Traversi, I. Valin, V. Vobbilisetti, M. Vogt, S. Wang, M. Winter, and D. Xu, “The OBELIX chip for the Belle II VTX upgrade,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, vol. 1067, p. 169659, 2024 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900224005850
- Open publicationH. Wöhrle, F. Schneider, F. Schlenke, D. Lebold, M. De Lucas Alvarez, F. Kirchner, and M. Karagounis, “Multi-Objective Surrogate-Model-Based Neural Architecture and Physical Design Co-Optimization of Energy Efficient Neural Network Hardware Accelerators,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 40–53, 2023.
- Open publicationA. Walsemann, M. Karagounis, A. Stanitzki, and D. Tutsch, “STRV — a radiation hard RISC-V microprocessor for high-energy physics applications,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 18, no. 02, p. C02032, 2023 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/02/C02032
- Open publicationR. Ahmad, A. Adam, J. Besproswanny, M. Karagounis, P. Kind, S. Kersten, A. Qamesh, A. Walsemann, and C. Zeitnitz, “Second generation Monitoring of Pixel System (MOPS) chip for the Detector Control System (DCS) of the ATLAS ITk Pixel detector,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 18, no. 04, p. C04015, 2023 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/04/C04015
- Open publicationA. Qamesh, R. Ahmad, D. Ecker, T. Fischer, M. Karagounis, P. Kind, S. Kersten, T. Krawutschke, L. Schreiter, and C. Zeitnitz, “System Integration of ATLAS ITK Pixel DCS ASICs,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1–7, 2023 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/18/05/C05003
- Open publicationA. Walsemann, M. Karagounis, A. Stanitzki, and D. Tutsch, “A radiation hard RISC-V microprocessor for high-energy physics applications,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, vol. 1056, p. 168633, 2023 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016890022300623X
- Open publicationJ. Kampkoetter, M. Karagounis, and R. Kokozinski, “Design and characterization of a cascode switching stage for high frequency radiation hardened DC/DC converters for the supply of future pixel detectors,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 17, no. 12, p. C12022, 2022 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/17/12/C12022
- Open publicationJ. Kampkötter, M. Karagounis, D. Koukola, F. Loddo, S. Orfanelli, A. P. Luengo, G. Traversi, and R. Kokozinski, “Characterization and verification of the Shunt-LDO regulator and its protection circuits for serial powering of the ATLAS and CMS pixel detectors,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2374, no. 1, p. 012071, 2022 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2374/1/012071
- Open publicationR. Ahmad, A. Beer, T. Fröse, M. Karagounis, P. Kind, S. Kersten, P. Ledüc, A. Qamesh, J. Besproswanny, A. Walsemann, and C. Zeitnitz, “The Monitoring of Pixel System (MOPS) chip for the Detector Control System of the ATLAS ITk Pixel Detector,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 2374, p. 012094, 2022 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2374/1/012094
- Open publicationA. Dimitrievska, A. Stiller, and M. Karagounis, “RD53A: A large-scale prototype chip for the phase II upgrade in the serially powered HL-LHC pixel detectors,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, vol. 958, p. 162091, 2020 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900219305029
- Open publicationS. Marconi, S. Orfanelli, M. Karagounis, T. Hemperek, J. Christiansen, and P. Placidi, “Advanced power analysis methodology targeted to the optimization of a digital pixel readout chip design and its critical serial powering system,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 12, no. 02, p. C02017, 2017 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/02/C02017
- Open publicationP. Muralidharan, A. Zambanini, M. Karagounis, C. Grewing, D. Liebau, D. Nielinger, M. Robens, A. Kruth, C. Peters, N. Parkalian, U. Yegin, and S. van Waasen, “An Automatic Baseline Regulation in a Highly Integrated Receiver Chip for JUNO,” Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 888, no. 1, p. 012051, 2017 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/888/1/012051
- Open publicationN. Lehmann, M. Karagounis, S. Kersten, and C. Zeitnitz, “Development of a Detector Control System for the ATLAS Pixel detector in the HL-LHC,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 11, no. 11, p. C11004, 2016 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/11/C11004
- Open publicationN. Demaria, M. B. Barbero, D. Fougeron, F. Gensolen, S. Godiot, M. Menouni, P. Pangaud, A. Rozanov, A. Wang, M. Bomben, G. Calderini, F. Crescioli, O. L. Dortz, G. Marchiori, D. Dzahini, F. E. Rarbi, R. Gaglione, L. Gonella, T. Hemperek, F. Huegging, M. Karagounis, T. Kishishita, H. Krueger, P. Rymaszewski, N. Wermes, F. Ciciriello, F. Corsi, C. Marzocca, G. D. Robertis, F. Loddo, F. Licciulli, A. Andreazza, V. Liberali, S. Shojaii, A. Stabile, M. Bagatin, D. Bisello, S. Mattiazzo, L. Ding, S. Gerardin, P. Giubilato, A. Neviani, A. Paccagnella, D. Vogrig, J. Wyss, N. Bacchetta, F. D. Canio, L. Gaioni, B. Nodari, M. Manghisoni, V. Re, G. Traversi, D. Comotti, L. Ratti, C. Vacchi, R. Beccherle, R. Bellazzini, G. Magazzu, M. Minuti, F. Morsani, F. Palla, S. Poulios, L. Fanucci, A. Rizzi, S. Saponara, K. Androsov, G. M. Bilei, M. Menichelli, E. Conti, S. Marconi, D. Passeri, P. Placidi, G. D. Casa, G. Mazza, A. Rivetti, M. D. D. R. Rolo, E. Monteil, L. Pacher, D. Gajanana, V. Gromov, N. Hessey, R. Kluit, V. Zivkovic, M. Havranek, Z. Janoska, M. Marcisovsky, G. Neue, L. Tomasek, V. Kafka, P. Sicho, V. Vrba, I. Vila, E. Lopez-Morillo, M. A. Aguirre, F. R. Palomo, F. Muñoz, D. Abbaneo, J. Christiansen, D. Dannheim, D. Dobos, L. Linssen, H. Pernegger, P. Valerio, N. A. Tehrani, S. Bell, M. L. Prydderch, S. Thomas, D. C. Christian, F. Fahim, J. Hoff, R. Lipton, T. Liu, T. Zimmerman, M. Garcia-Sciveres, D. Gnani, A. Mekkaoui, I. Gorelov, M. Hoeferkamp, S. Seidel, K. Toms, J. N. D. Witt, A. Grillo, and A. Paternò, “Recent progress of RD53 Collaboration towards next generation Pixel Read-Out Chip for HL-LHC,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 11, no. 12, p. C12058, 2016 [Online]. Available: https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/11/12/C12058
- Open publicationM. Garcia-Sciveres, D. Arutinov, M. Barbero, R. Beccherle, S. Dube, D. Elledge, J. Fleury, D. Fougeron, F. Gensolen, D. Gnani, V. Gromov, T. Hemperek, M. Karagounis, R. Kluit, A. Kruth, A. Mekkaoui, M. Menouni, and J.-D. Schipper, “The FE-I4 pixel readout integrated circuit,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 636, no. 1, Supplement, pp. 155–159, 2011 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900210009551
- Open publicationM. Barbero, D. Arutinov, R. Beccherle, G. Darbo, S. Dube, D. Elledge, J. Fleury, D. Fougeron, M. Garcia-Sciveres, F. Gensolen, D. Gnani, V. Gromov, F. Jensen, T. Hemperek, M. Karagounis, R. Kluit, A. Kruth, A. Mekkaoui, M. Menouni, J. D. Schipper, N. Wermes, and V. Zivkovic, “Submission of the first full scale prototype chip for upgraded ATLAS pixel detector at LHC, FE-I4A,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 650, no. 1, pp. 111–114, 2011 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900210026781
- Open publicationV. Zivkovic, J. D. Schipper, R. Kluit, M. Garcia-Sciveres, A. Mekkaoui, M. Barbero, R. Beccherle, D. Gnani, T. Hemperek, M. Karagounis, M. Menouni, D. Fougeron, F. Gensolen, V. Gromov, A. Kruth, G. Darbo, J. FLEURY, J. C. Clemens, S. Dube, D. Elledge, A. Rozanov, and D. Arutinov, “The design for test architecture in digital section of the ATLAS FE-I4 chip,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 6, no. 01, p. C01090, 2011 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/6/01/C01090
- Open publicationL. Gonella, D. Arutinov, M. Barbero, A. Eyring, F. Hügging, M. Karagounis, H. Krüger, and N. Wermes, “A serial powering scheme for the ATLAS pixel detector at sLHC,” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 5, p. C12002, 2010.
- Open publicationM. Barbero, D. Arutinov, R. Beccherle, G. Darbo, R. Ely, D. Fougeron, M. Garcia-Sciveres, D. Gnani, T. Hemperek, M. Karagounis, R. Kluit, V. Kostioukhine, A. Mekkaoui, M. Menouni, and J.-D. Schipper, “A new ATLAS pixel front-end IC for upgraded LHC luminosity,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 604, no. 1–2, pp. 397–399, 2009 [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900209002010
Scientific presentation slides
- Open publicationH. Wöhrle and M. Karagounis, “Hardware-Architekturen für maschinelles Lernen in eingebetteten und verteilten Systemen,” 2019 [Online]. Available: https://www.smart-systems-conference.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Folien_Hendrik_Woehrle.pdf