Position
Director

Expertise
Photonics, surface physics, nanotechnology

Memberships in national and international Societies/Boards

• President glaTec Technology Center, Foerderverein, Duebendorf 
• Swiss and European Physical Society
• CTI expert for science and technology transfer
• Swiss armament committee
• International Advisory Board, National Institute for Material Science, NIMS, Japan
• Kuratorium der Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Deutschland

Teaching / Research commissions

• Professor at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne
• Research commission Energy, Paul Scherrer Institute
• Photon Science Advisory Committee, Paul Scherrer Institut
• NCCR Quantum Photonics Direction Committee

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 1983 Diploma in Physics, ETH Zurich
• 1987 PhD degree in Physics at ETH Zurich on ‘Magnetism at Surfaces by pulsed Laser excited Photoemission’

Professional career

• 1987 - 1988 Postdoc IBM Research, Rueschlikon
• 1988 - 1998 IBM Research Staff Member, Rueschlikon
• 1998 – 2004 IBM Research Manager Photonic, Rueschlikon
• 2004 – 2008 IBM Research Functional Manager, Science and Technology, San Jose, California, USA
• 2008 – 2009 IBM Director Tape Storage Solutions, Tucson, Arizona, USA
• since 2009 Director Empa
  

List of Publications (PDF, 277 KB)