Since 2000, Alexander Zink works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Erlangen, Germany) as Chief Business Development Manager Digital Radio & Streaming Applications. 

Initially he developed the mobile and location-based information system UMIS (Universal Mobile Information System). From 2001 on he focused on the professional broadcast head-end technologies "Fraunhofer DRM, DAB ContentServer". Since 2002 he is project director for Journaline, an interactive text-based information system for digital radio. In addition, he works in the fields of xHE-AAC based audio streaming, AudioServers, software defined radio, transmission protocols, technology development and standardization, and IP management and licensing. 

For Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) he acts as Vice-Chairman of the DRM Consortium.